I Am Grateful For…

This week in gratitude

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It feels odd writing this post today. I haven’t been writing my weekly gratitude posts since the very first one of 2023 that I published in the first week of January. The reason? Oh, there is no reason, other than excuses.

Truthfully, I didn’t feel like writing a gratitude post. I wrote a couple of times — once in late January and once in February, but never took the effort to edit and publish the post.

I have also been slacking off in my daily gratitude journaling. I wrote when I felt like jotting down what I was grateful for. Most days I didn’t feel the need to write my gratitudes. Does that make me a bad person? An ungrateful one? I don’t think so. If I write for the sake of writing without actually feeling grateful, then it is a timewaster. But, I wasn’t going through a not so grateful period either. Life was performing its brilliant act with no hesitation and I went with its flow.

I am not here to justify or to make excuses. Forgiving yourself is the kindest self care action. For the days I could’ve woken up earlier, been productive, worked out better, cooked efficiently, cleaned thoroughly, written more, been a better creative person, and had done everything a tad more skillfully than I had done, I forgive myself. By doing so, I am taking control of my day, rather than lamenting about what’s…