Giving Thanks
We can never practice enough gratitude. It’s an act of grace that propels us forward in life and weaves thankfulness into our everyday (sometimes habitual) lives.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I’m grateful for so much. So much. This is also why I’m excited to feature and talk about Gen Y Gives Thanks. A series in the National Gen Y Examiner column by Sharalyn Hartwel. Last month the seed was planted after the beautiful and vivacious Sharalyn and I met at a coffee shop in Boulder. She has been driving this series and it is booming everyday with the words of Gen Yers around the world who are expressing their gratitude.
Last week mine was featured, which I will include here, but I encourage each of you to visit the series and look to everyone’s prolific gratitude.
Sharalyn properly titled mine and Tim Grubbs’ feature last week as “Freedom To Make Our Own Choices.” Here’s what I wrote:
“This past year I picked up my life, left my friends, family and a boyfriend to head west to Boulder, Colo. I started a job I still love and have been recreating a new life. Through gain, inevitably comes loss. However, the pain and loss of making new friends, no longer being with that boyfriend, being anonymous in a new town and the initial job search haven’t made me bitter, they’ve made me grateful and appreciative.
I am thankful for my independence and courage. I am thankful for my lifelong friends who stood by me and the new friends I have made in my new home. I am thankful for my family who encouraged this move and great risk. I strive to life a life that is fulfilling and this past year I have done just that. I looked fear in the face and learned to smile and wink right back at it. As gratitude rides through me, I can’t help but smile, and feel thanks. Fear, you’ve got nothing on me.”
You can read the feature here.
So I ask you: What are you grateful for?
