Gratitude

“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.” Jan Sincero

As I sit here, I am looking out of my newly installed window. There are clouds slowly and quietly crossing the sky. The sun is ducking in and out of the clouds as if playing hide and seek. Beautiful!!! My heart is full of thankfulness because a month ago I was down with Covid-19 and today, I am well on the road to recovery. Not so far from my thoughts are the few I knew whose battle with the virus had a vary different outcome. That has made my appreciation and what I do with my life from here on out all the more important and what I do and where I invest my time all that more essential. Because, I know it could have turned out a whole lot different.

While I am going to recover from the physical effects of the virus, I am going to be dealing with the emotional impact of Covid-19 for a lot longer. There is the anger that surfaces when I think that I likely got the virus while at work and from a customer. There is the general feeling that everything is unsafe while out in public. Then, there is the worry of the possibility of being reinfected with the virus. While I try hard to not allow those fears and emotions influence me, they are there just under the surface.

I am really trying to take my time and to breathe and to not allow the feeling of urgency to get back to life push me to do something or to make some choice I may regret later. I want going forward to both never forget how blessed I am to be here on this planet and to do something meaningful and that makes an impact on others. So, it may or may not come right away to me and it maybe it requires a total shifting of my life. I keep thinking that it’s not what I end up doing that matters, what matters more is when I wake up in the morning can I truthfully say to myself, “am I excited and what I am going to do is going to make a real difference in someone’s life or is it going to make the world a better place because I have invested my time in this for that day.”

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