Friday, February 1, 2013
75.
I thought on this day, the 75th day, a little over 1/5th of the way completed with my year of expressing gratitude, I'd share this quote.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward.
I made it big and I underlined it, because it's true...and when things are true that's what you do!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
74
Being Alone and being THANKFUL for it.
"Because it’s often in moments of solitude where you realize just how not alone you are. In fact, when you take a moment to be intentionally alone, to absorb everything through the sole filter of your perception, you understand that life is filled with people and things who accompany you. There is a confidence that comes from being alone, a happiness in the more simple pleasures that often go unnoticed when we are distracted by the presence and opinions of others. The crusty bread crackles in your ear when you tear a piece off. The steam from the coffee hits the tip of your nose as you put it to your lips. The small conversations that happen with the man you buy your produce from, or the girl let ahead of you on the subway, all become a kind of warm blanket of confirmation and life. The chatter around you can fill you up with varying degrees of comprehension, tuning in and out when it suits you. You are miles away from alone.
And it is perhaps this that it is most beautiful, most necessary about aloneness. It is realizing that what you’ve always feared, what you’ve always heard such horror stories about, isn’t being alone. It’s not “dying alone,” as if that were even a concrete concept. It’s all of the things that can lead to aloneness, it is the heartbreak whose pain we want to pawn off on the moments we’re sitting by ourselves in front of our stereo listening to the same song over and over again. The pain in loneliness comes from all that surrounds it, not the act itself. And when you spend enough quality time alone, you realize that it is indeed nothing to fear. You realize that you, by yourself, are happy and are confirmed in life and worth by everything around you. And though it will not take the edge off of the painful few moments that lead to us being alone, it is worth reminding ourselves that just because we’re eating alone at a restaurant doesn’t mean we aren’t in wonderful company." - Thought Catalog.
"Because it’s often in moments of solitude where you realize just how not alone you are. In fact, when you take a moment to be intentionally alone, to absorb everything through the sole filter of your perception, you understand that life is filled with people and things who accompany you. There is a confidence that comes from being alone, a happiness in the more simple pleasures that often go unnoticed when we are distracted by the presence and opinions of others. The crusty bread crackles in your ear when you tear a piece off. The steam from the coffee hits the tip of your nose as you put it to your lips. The small conversations that happen with the man you buy your produce from, or the girl let ahead of you on the subway, all become a kind of warm blanket of confirmation and life. The chatter around you can fill you up with varying degrees of comprehension, tuning in and out when it suits you. You are miles away from alone.
And it is perhaps this that it is most beautiful, most necessary about aloneness. It is realizing that what you’ve always feared, what you’ve always heard such horror stories about, isn’t being alone. It’s not “dying alone,” as if that were even a concrete concept. It’s all of the things that can lead to aloneness, it is the heartbreak whose pain we want to pawn off on the moments we’re sitting by ourselves in front of our stereo listening to the same song over and over again. The pain in loneliness comes from all that surrounds it, not the act itself. And when you spend enough quality time alone, you realize that it is indeed nothing to fear. You realize that you, by yourself, are happy and are confirmed in life and worth by everything around you. And though it will not take the edge off of the painful few moments that lead to us being alone, it is worth reminding ourselves that just because we’re eating alone at a restaurant doesn’t mean we aren’t in wonderful company." - Thought Catalog.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
73
Today I'm thankful for FIFTY degrees!! Which, somehow, feels like 80 degrees! The past week and a half upstate NY has had some frigid temperatures. Like below zero. And I know, it's winter, get a jacket...blah blah, but home-girl don't play those kind of temps. Today my car thermometer read 50 degrees and I almost contemplated wearing flip flops to work, just as a big "suck it, winter!" I didn't But...seriously, 50 degrees. I love you.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
69, 70, 71, 72
Day 69: I'm thankful for knowing the definition of insanity.
Day 70: I'm thankful for realizing the definition of insanity is rearing it's ugly head in my life.
Day 71: I'm thankful for taking action and stomping out the insanity in my life.
Day 72: Today. I'm thankful for small victories! Today is day 3 of my journey forward of ridding the insanity from my life.
I've been slacking on the weekend because I've been jam packing them with things that make me smile. This weekend was my birthday and I was surrounded by love, despite some minor (insane) blips. However, rather then taking a "woe is me," attitude, I'm choosing to see it as a defining moment of CLARITY.
Day 70: I'm thankful for realizing the definition of insanity is rearing it's ugly head in my life.
Day 71: I'm thankful for taking action and stomping out the insanity in my life.
Day 72: Today. I'm thankful for small victories! Today is day 3 of my journey forward of ridding the insanity from my life.
I've been slacking on the weekend because I've been jam packing them with things that make me smile. This weekend was my birthday and I was surrounded by love, despite some minor (insane) blips. However, rather then taking a "woe is me," attitude, I'm choosing to see it as a defining moment of CLARITY.
Friday, January 25, 2013
68!
Tonight I'm starting my birthday weekend with some great friends at my favorite bar/restaurant.
I haven't yet expressed my gratitude for Max London's but it should be noted. This restaurant has quite possibly the best menu and food in Saratoga. Paired with a great bar scene and great music, always, Max's is the beesknees.
Can't wait to get there tonight and be together with some of the coolest people I know. :)
I haven't yet expressed my gratitude for Max London's but it should be noted. This restaurant has quite possibly the best menu and food in Saratoga. Paired with a great bar scene and great music, always, Max's is the beesknees.
Can't wait to get there tonight and be together with some of the coolest people I know. :)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
67
Positive quotes and articles that contribute to all things silver linings.
Today I'm cultivating all things that make me happy and included in that are reading lots of quotes, inspiration, yet not cheesy, affirmations, that put my shit in perspective!
"Ride the wave..."
:)
Today I'm cultivating all things that make me happy and included in that are reading lots of quotes, inspiration, yet not cheesy, affirmations, that put my shit in perspective!
"Ride the wave..."
:)
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Get Your Kicks...
66.
Today I'm sharing a great article full of 36 things to be thankful for, but one great, overall picture. I'm thankful that I came across this list of "life lessons." I am living them and even though they are not from my mother, my mom definitely encouraged me to cultivate lots of these ideals.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/life-lessons-for-my-daughters-dawn-meysel/
"Don't just exist."
<3
Today I'm sharing a great article full of 36 things to be thankful for, but one great, overall picture. I'm thankful that I came across this list of "life lessons." I am living them and even though they are not from my mother, my mom definitely encouraged me to cultivate lots of these ideals.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/life-lessons-for-my-daughters-dawn-meysel/
"Don't just exist."
<3
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