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Ever since I got sober, I’ve had this nagging feeling that I got away with something that many people I’ve known over the years did not. Acknowledging this truth always alleviates any momentary anxiety I might be feeling and mainlines a potent batch of gratitude into my system. Life continues to throw a lot at you even after you’ve cleaned up your act, and in many ways it feels a lot harder to handle because reality isn’t so foggy anymore and problems aren’t as easy to shrug off as they once were. But remembering that I’m lucky to still be here at all and that I just might be in the bonus round of my life always makes me thrilled to be alive.“I want to live again!” - George Bailey, “It’s A Wonderful Life”
Oct 31, 2023
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Forgot that I wasn’t gonna die and the world wasn’t ending just yet. feels good, I like the momentum while it’s here
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🤧Shit be making me feel SO grateful for my life and like I can achieve anything. I swear every time I go through a really bad depression slump I need to get physically ill to shock myself out of it
Oct 29, 2024
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🐞I was just about to go to bed but I couldn't until i wrote this out.
I personally don't believe in God, but sometimes I think who have I gotten so lucky. Is it luck or is it a greater being that has rewarded my good deads with such a wonderful life? I often get down about aspects of my life such as working in a coffee shop 4 days a week or feeling a little lost creatively but I forget all the remarkable things that i have been blessed with. The small things get me; I have never in my life felt more loved and inspired thanks to both my romantic relationship plus my platonic ones. I have a desire to learn and explore, which is a feeling I've never felt.
Take time out of your day to appreciate and reflect on what makes your life worth living, it may be small or large, just allow that feeling of admiration to take over your mind and body.
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🎂For the past year or so I’ve tried to surprise as many people as I can with a birthday cake on their special day. I can safely say it is the easiest, most rewarding thing you can do to show your gratitude that someone else exists. You only have to do it once a year, but they’ll remember it.
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🎒Can’t believe I forgot to include this earlier. Chris Lilley’s masterpiece. Buried deeper and deeper as the years go by. The hardest I’ve laughed at anything outside of Stella.
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🪄Watching David Blaine’s Street Magic special as a kid was a sea change moment in my life. Not so much because of the tricks or the guy doing them, but because of the looks on the people’s faces. It was the happiest I had ever seen grownups look. That pure state of childlike wonder is the thing I crave the most as an adult, and the feeling I most hope I can give to other people.