Day 902 - Gratitude - https://golifelog.com/posts/gratitude-1687307757743
I've always struggled to practice gratitude. The gratitude journaling exercises and other ways of saying thanks for small to huge things in my life right now always felt forced and artificial. If I'm not feeling it, saying I am grateful feels fake at best, self-deceptive at worst.
But recently I've found a way to do that genuinely. It's a thing making its circles in parenting social media. It goes a bit like this:
Imagine you're 90 and you've got a chance to time travel back in time to just one moment in the past to relive it. That moment is right now. Whatever tantrums your kid is throwing, chaos you're going through, heated emotions you feel... all starts to fade away and ceases to matter. Because one year from this moment you'd forgot why were you even upset to start with. And as a time-travelling 90-year-old, I would just want to enjoy the moment with my child all over again, no matter how chaotic it is or how mad I feel.
Visualising and imagining that always helped me not get too caught up in the emotions of the moment. And thinking that one day all the toys, the toddler antics, the hugs will be gone, never fails to trigger an upswelling of emotions.
This period of time is so precious. Once gone, can never be relived.
Money, stress, career, products, revenue, followers, impressions – it matters but also doesn't matter.
This right now, matters.
And for the first time, I can say:
I'm grateful for this moment in time.
But recently I've found a way to do that genuinely. It's a thing making its circles in parenting social media. It goes a bit like this:
Imagine you're 90 and you've got a chance to time travel back in time to just one moment in the past to relive it. That moment is right now. Whatever tantrums your kid is throwing, chaos you're going through, heated emotions you feel... all starts to fade away and ceases to matter. Because one year from this moment you'd forgot why were you even upset to start with. And as a time-travelling 90-year-old, I would just want to enjoy the moment with my child all over again, no matter how chaotic it is or how mad I feel.
Visualising and imagining that always helped me not get too caught up in the emotions of the moment. And thinking that one day all the toys, the toddler antics, the hugs will be gone, never fails to trigger an upswelling of emotions.
This period of time is so precious. Once gone, can never be relived.
Money, stress, career, products, revenue, followers, impressions – it matters but also doesn't matter.
This right now, matters.
And for the first time, I can say:
I'm grateful for this moment in time.