It’s Christmas morning and my eyes have been flooding. I haven’t done traditional cards for years. Instead, I create a digital one and text it along with a quick note to everyone on my contact list that I consider a friend. I feel extremely grateful for these people.
Gratitude for my friends makes me think of gratitude toward life in general. I learned in a recent MKE webinar of the human predisposition toward a negative bias. For most of my life, that bias was close at hand to put a cloud over all that I could be grateful for. Since my daily exercises include reminding myself to be a grateful receiver of the gifts that surround me, I’m slowly climbing my way out of a peptide rut.
That’s a good thing because I didn’t see 2020 coming. Under the full influence of a negative bias, the year would have been devastating. So much has happened in my circle it’s ridiculous. The negativity could be having a heyday, but I’m still standing.
I’m grateful for that. And to the MKE for showing me the way.
Randy, good for you for being grateful in those ways. From your blog rover friend John.