I have recently started keeping a gratitude journal. I do not admit this lightly. It seems like the kind of gateway drug to a post that begins "I have recently changed my name to Shanti Soleil" or "I have recently tie-dyed my armpit hair" or "I have recently started inserting crystals into my nostrils to cleanse my chakras" but it's 2020 and I don't need to explain what THAT means and so in the evenings before I go to sleep I try to remember to open up my notebook and write down a page of things that I am grateful for from that day. All the awful things are so relentlessly awful and present and huge that it had got easy to believe that there wasn't anything good out there at all, so I realised that I had better start noticing all the nice things. Sometimes it's easy to fill a page. Sometimes it takes a long time. Sometimes I fall asleep halfway through but it's not the worst thing to fall asleep to, remembering every nice thing that happened that day, so that's OK. Here is a small selection of the things I have been grateful for in October:
Everyone is Awesome
Everyone is Awesome
Everyone is Awesome
I have recently started keeping a gratitude journal. I do not admit this lightly. It seems like the kind of gateway drug to a post that begins "I have recently changed my name to Shanti Soleil" or "I have recently tie-dyed my armpit hair" or "I have recently started inserting crystals into my nostrils to cleanse my chakras" but it's 2020 and I don't need to explain what THAT means and so in the evenings before I go to sleep I try to remember to open up my notebook and write down a page of things that I am grateful for from that day. All the awful things are so relentlessly awful and present and huge that it had got easy to believe that there wasn't anything good out there at all, so I realised that I had better start noticing all the nice things. Sometimes it's easy to fill a page. Sometimes it takes a long time. Sometimes I fall asleep halfway through but it's not the worst thing to fall asleep to, remembering every nice thing that happened that day, so that's OK. Here is a small selection of the things I have been grateful for in October: