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    </div><p id="be8a">… happy and content. Grateful.</p><p id="8dde">Radical acceptance — although I didn’t know it by that name until recently — has been a part of who I am, as an ER Doc and as an otherwise-normal human being, for a long time.</p><p id="ad5a">I’ve internalized the concept of “enough” in so many, if not all, areas of my life. I’m not lacking in desires and ambition, but I have enough, of so much, and I’m content.</p><p id="c41f">Joys, big and small, comes my way daily.</p><p id="7600">But sometimes I’m just a human too.</p><p id="b5f6">Then when frustrations or lack of progress or emotional setbacks occur, my gratitude focus can slip. That is happening now.</p><p id="f18d">I’m been describing to others that I’ve been feeling like a caged wild animal lately. My second COV

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ID-19 vaccine injection is four weeks out. Then add two weeks. Then I can travel. I can get out. I can see some unfamiliar territory. I can interact with others beyond my few family members and the masked and goggled grocery store clerks.There are other frustrations too, not worth going into here. Maybe they’ll leak out into some other tales. Maybe some have already.But, as I’ve said, I’ve lost my gratitude focus.I have to be OK with that, and for the moment I am. I’m grateful for that realization.Maybe that’s the way back.Thank you to <a href="undefined">Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)</a> whose work, <a href="https://readmedium.com/sensing-gratitude-72617f89715">Sensing Gratitude</a>, and to <a href="undefined">Galit Birk, PhD</a> whose work, <a href="https://readmedium.com/grateful-presence-3f5f24e583a9">Grateful Presence</a>, drove me to deliver this story.</article></body>

When Gratitude Flounders

Happy? … No! Realistic? … Yes!

Mostly I live in this space …

If Your Great Days Are Just That … Great, Then Are Your Ordinary Days Just Ordinary?

(Reflections on the Routine)

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… happy and content. Grateful.

Radical acceptance — although I didn’t know it by that name until recently — has been a part of who I am, as an ER Doc and as an otherwise-normal human being, for a long time.

I’ve internalized the concept of “enough” in so many, if not all, areas of my life. I’m not lacking in desires and ambition, but I have enough, of so much, and I’m content.

Joys, big and small, comes my way daily.

But sometimes I’m just a human too.

Then when frustrations or lack of progress or emotional setbacks occur, my gratitude focus can slip. That is happening now.

I’m been describing to others that I’ve been feeling like a caged wild animal lately. My second COVID-19 vaccine injection is four weeks out. Then add two weeks. Then I can travel. I can get out. I can see some unfamiliar territory. I can interact with others beyond my few family members and the masked and goggled grocery store clerks.

There are other frustrations too, not worth going into here. Maybe they’ll leak out into some other tales. Maybe some have already.

But, as I’ve said, I’ve lost my gratitude focus.

I have to be OK with that, and for the moment I am. I’m grateful for that realization.

Maybe that’s the way back.

Thank you to Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) whose work, Sensing Gratitude, and to Galit Birk, PhD whose work, Grateful Presence, drove me to deliver this story.