I Choose Gratitude

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to and the travels to experience new places all bring gratitude too. When I find someone in need and I am able to help and they feel gratitude — I feel gratitude for being able to help. For the time I had in quarantine that pushed me to begin writing, gratitude again.The life I live is full of gratitude. I choose gratitude.I know that there is a lot of research available about how gratitude can positively impact many areas of our lives mentally and physically. There are therapies centered around gratitude. There are many self-help resources available to increase gratitude in one’s life and to help us obtain the benefits of feeling more gratitude.I haven’t read much of the research or sought the strategies — but I can say from experience, having a life full of gratitude is a calm and fulfilling feeling.Gratitude makes everything better.Thank you to <a href="undefined">Carolyn Hastings</a> for tagging me into the ‘I choose’ prompt which was initiated by <a href="https://readmedium.com/31fbf98d9064?source=post_page-----5ee25b3aa8c7--------------------------------">Sahil Patel</a>. Here is Carolyn’s poem, I Choose You—</p

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A prose poem

Photo, K.Barrett, author

Each time something beautiful or interesting — like a feather in the sand —catches my eye and captures my curiosity, I feel gratitude. I feel gratitude when I have time and am physically able to stop, take a look, wonder, and enjoy. As the sun sets each day, as an interesting bunch of clouds passes by, as a bird calls to another within my hearing, as the lilacs bloom and cast their scent —I feel gratitude. I feel like the universe has positioned me perfectly to take in the awe of that moment. Somehow I am in exactly the right place at exactly the right time for this unique experience that was chosen for me. I feel gratitude.

My son’s adoption story, once again, right place and right time —I feel limitless gratitude. When I think about how lucky I am to have found my husband and the life that we have built together, I feel gratitude. For my friends and family, coworkers and career, more gratitude. The outside space and nature that I have access to and the travels to experience new places all bring gratitude too. When I find someone in need and I am able to help and they feel gratitude — I feel gratitude for being able to help. For the time I had in quarantine that pushed me to begin writing, gratitude again.

The life I live is full of gratitude. I choose gratitude.

I know that there is a lot of research available about how gratitude can positively impact many areas of our lives mentally and physically. There are therapies centered around gratitude. There are many self-help resources available to increase gratitude in one’s life and to help us obtain the benefits of feeling more gratitude.

I haven’t read much of the research or sought the strategies — but I can say from experience, having a life full of gratitude is a calm and fulfilling feeling.

Gratitude makes everything better.

Thank you to Carolyn Hastings for tagging me into the ‘I choose’ prompt which was initiated by Sahil Patel. Here is Carolyn’s poem, I Choose You—

And here is Sahil’s poem, I Choose —