I was chatting to a pal yesterday, saying that often, I can’t think how good daily life is ideal now. I really feel like I require to pinch myself.
I was telling a different good friend (who is also divorcing from a not-very good relationship) that a reward we acquire from that practical experience is a extensive amount of appreciation for what it is like to be free of charge.
We know what it is like to are living in a quite hard predicament for a really lengthy time, so we have an abnormal amount of gratitude for items some persons consider for granted.
It’s like going through a full new magical globe that we barely understood existed. At times I question if it is like viewing in shade when you have invested yrs in a monochromatic entire world.
This 7 days, I am grateful:
for the way running a blog produced scholarship essays so quick for me
I have prepared 1000’s of posts right here in excess of the several years, so crafting a number of essays for scholarships was a extremely, extremely small challenge.
My tell-a-tale-about-my-daily life capabilities are nicely-honed from all these blog posts!
that I obtained an A on my med-surg examination
I obtained 46/50 right, so that is a 92%. That is a difficult class, and that particular test substance was rather tough, so, WHEW.
I read a rumor that foreseeable future med-surg exams are somewhat fewer tough, so that is encouraging. We’ll see!
I have two a lot more med-surg tests, additionally a final…and I just have to hold doing what I have been performing.
One week at a time. 1 module at a time. One particular examination at a time.
In the phrases of Dory (from Getting Nemo)…just continue to keep swimming, just hold swimming. 🙂
for how supportive you guys all are
I was just wondering about how I can share right here when I get a fantastic quality, and you fellas are all just so nice about it.
No one particular tells me I’m bragging and no a person feels threatened you all just share my pleasure when factors go effectively, and I take pleasure in that!
Many thanks for getting on my team. 🙂
for prospects, and the freedom to consider them
I was wondering about items like the vineyard night the other night time, my visits to the symphony, my climbing adventures, study teams with classmates, and so on.
Some yrs ago, I would not have been equipped to do all of people factors, and I am so, so grateful that I have the freedom to do them now.
for kitty snuggles
Shelley laid down on my lap for a extensive time the other evening though Zoe and I watched a film.
And of study course, Chiquita is forever and ever following to me, anywhere I go in the house. 😉
Most of the time I am grateful for this, but when she lies down on my keyboard and adds matters to my posts, I am less grateful. Ha.
for my minimal household
Heading along with the pinching myself thing…some times, I think, “I get to live below? In my possess little residence? As extensive as I want to?”
And it feels practically much too fantastic to be real.
for a sweet package deal from reader Dicey
She sent me a entire box of health care-related textbooks, these types of as professional medical memoirs. So kind!
Chiquita is appreciative of the box the guides came in. 😉
that I can see progress in the rearview mirror
I was at a divorce assist team conference previous night time, and in the course of the dialogue, I shared my philosophy about riding the waves of bad memories alternatively than resisting, and sitting with the emotions as they appear up.
And in undertaking that, I was reminded of how considerably progress I have created in excess of the last two yrs, processing what I’ve been through.
Development is slow in the second, but with the profit of time and hindsight, I seriously can see how much I have appear.
It’s not that I under no circumstances feel angry any longer, or that I never ever experience sad, but the waves of emotion arrive so a lot a lot less often, and normally with considerably less intensity.
The waters I’m sailing in now are calmer than they made use of to be, and I am thankful.
