2008 Gratitude

Ok, so I do these letters.  Every New Year’s, I write gratitude letters to the people who impacted my life over the course of the year.  Last year, I didn’t exactly get around to it because I had just adopted kids and life was. . . let’s say “hectic”.

This year, I made my list of people to whom letters needed to be written and I was a little overwhelmed.  It was approximately 4 times the number of people I wrote last time.  Given that I put a lot of thought into these letters and they’re not exactly short, that’s a lot of writing!

But. . . in the spirit of the whole concept – gratitude – I have to admit, it’s pretty awesome to be able to look at one year and come away with so many people to thank for having a significant impact on one’s life.

One of my favorite things about the way my mind works is that I can have some of the most amazingly shitty times of my life (hi, Fucking Douchebag & Stupid Whore!) and walk away thankful for the lessons learned and able to recognize the good that resulted from the chain of events that followed the shittiness.

My gratitude letters won’t all get out today, which kinda takes some of the impact out of it.  But, that’s OK because tomorrow, when I wake up and start the new batch of letters, it will be the first time I’ve had so many that it took two days. . . and that’s pretty freaking awesome.

Happy New Year, Internet!