For many of us, it will be a challenging Thanksgiving. With restricted travel and limited gatherings family traditions and get-together are going to be affected. For many, it only adds to what is perceived as a horrible year. Indeed, 2020 has had its “apocalyptic” moments, but even our darkest moments can be welcomed with an attitude of gratitude—grattitude.
Perhaps, I quote Friedrich Nietzsche too frequently (“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”), but the sentiment feeds my grattitude. No matter what horrible thing might have happened yesterday, I am alive today to use it for good. Let this be our grattitude this Thanksgiving.
The year is not yet finished. Who know what tomorrow will bring? If we spend our time complaining about 2020, we lose sight of the opportunities (albeit, perhaps, in the form of challenges) it has brought. We pass on the opportunity to let our experiences grow us—to be better today than we were yesterday.
As we share Thanksgiving, perhaps, via Facetime, let us focus on that for which we can be grateful. You may have to dig deep to find our grattitude, but it is there, if we are willing to find it. Choose to receive with thanksgiving all that 2020 has handed us. In doing so, we will truly celebrate the holiday.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!