Gratitude.

With it being Thanksgiving week here in the US I'm going to try and see a light though at the end of this long bleak tunnel . . .

I'm so grateful that I have the ability to see. I was thinking about back in the day when they didn't have contacts, and even farther back when they didn't have glasses. How did they manage? I run into walls when I don't have my contacts in! I'm so grateful for the technology that we have.

I'm also so thankful for the internet, I know that sounds like a horrible thing to say, but you can learn how to do almost anything on the internet! I've learned how to do makeup, I've learned how to cook certain things, I've even learned that coffee grounds make a good facial mask! It's absolutely amazing.

I'm grateful for music. I'm grateful that I have talents in music and am able to sing and play the piano. I'm grateful for the opportunity to express the way I feel through music and to be able to listen to music that uplifts and inspires as well as helps me understand, it does get better.

I'm also grateful for makeup, however cliche and cheesy that sounds. It is another way of expressing how I feel. If I'm happy, it's easy to use pink and green and yellow. When I'm a little bit more down in the dumps, I opt for the black, blue traditional silver smoky eye.

I'm grateful for school. Despite all the troubles and heartache it sometimes brings, I love learning, I love being able to learn about things I've never even imagined existed.

I also need to say how grateful I am to my family and friends. Despite how difficult it is to be around them sometimes, when it comes down to it, I know that I still love them. And it's good that they haven't given up on me especially since I'm a stubborn mule when it comes to being independent.

I'm grateful for my trials, because despite how hard they are right now, I'm going to make it. I'm going to get there someday. They say "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I sure hope so. Because I'm going to be one heck of a strong girl when this is all through.

To those of you who don't have cause to be grateful for your family, because of abuse or whatever, thank your parents for your life. Your mother carried you 9 months (give or take) so you could have an opportunity to live. If you don't have any friends, go make one, that's my challenge for you. For those that are homeless, be grateful that you have whatever provisions you do have. That's what this holiday season is all about. Being grateful for the things that we do have. Sure, when Christmas rolls around we have the present shopping and the parties and the neighbor gifts or whatever, but let's all take a little time to reflect on the simple things in life. For they are the most important. And no matter how much we want to take our cell phones or computers or video games into the next life, they can't come with us. Only our knowledge and relationships carry on.

May peace, love and happiness find you all.
God bless,
-A Little Bird