Gratitude post: May 15th 2020

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This Vlogbrothers video about a life changing book has reminded me to resume the gratitude journaling to fight back against the spiralling rage within, and it's tendency to overwhelm my perspective. The lovingkindness meditation did not catch in my brain the way the thought-naming exercise caught fire in my mind. I think I will be sticking with the meditations and therapies I already have, and just being more diligent about it. To which end: gratitude.

I am grateful to be loved and trusted by my friends. I am glad that they feel safe with me, and can show vulnerability without being overwhelmed by fear.

I am grateful for the late spring breezes, for friends with working printers, for family members that have gotten therapy. I have gratitude for kitties, for medical care, and for strangers on the internet who debate in good faith.

I am grateful to still be alive in a difficult time, that even when so many people want to be non-mask-wearing trumpster-fires that enough people have worn masks to protect me.

Comments

[numb3r_5ev3n]

I also hate that people are being Trumpster fires.

I actually got a costco membership because they are requiring masks. And like, it is their right as a business entity to do that if they want. Reactionaries pretend to love the free market until it does something they don't like.

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The last store I went into was Super H Mart, because they are requiring masks and giving out gloves. Places that take stuff seriously are such a calming thing.