A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For -The School of Life Articles | Formerly The Book of Life
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A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For 🙏
- Most of the 78 organs in our bodies have performed pretty reliably since the day we were born.
- Everyone messes up their life quite a bit.
- We’ve sometimes been surprised by how things turned out.
- We don’t need to be afraid of starving – or even of being very cold.
- Every year, if we just stay in one spot, there are at least two weeks of perfect weather.
- We are never too far from a very hot bath.
- We’ve come a long way since the early shyness, incompetence and fear.
- Of course we couldn’t have known.
- Compared with what we feared in the rockiest patches, this is almost OK.
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- We’re still here.
- There were no outright catastrophes today.
- A few times, we really experienced what love felt like.
- A few times, we really felt understood.
- Many of the people we love are still alive.
- We could disappear for a bit.
- We still have quite a lot of time left.
- Children of three or four are, intermittently, reliably sweet.
- There hasn’t been a war here for a while.
- You can turn on the tap and clean water comes out for almost nothing.
- We can leave the places we were born and raised.
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- There’s always music.
- Without asking anyone, we could go into many shops and buy a treat.
- There’s always someone suffering just in the way we are.
- Everyone is weird, we just don’t have access to their inner minds.
- The silent majesty of a clear night sky.
- We’re very normal in the number of idiocies we’ve committed.
- We don’t have to take ourselves seriously.
- We can feel heroic about the ordinary.
- We can smile even on little things we enjoy.
- We have managed to learn a few things down the years.
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- There are lots of beautiful people we can take pleasure in looking at.
- There are people who have loved us, even though we didn’t totally deserve their affection or devotion.
- A few bits of our body are really rather beautiful.
- Things really do look better when we have slept.
- Many of the world’s most interesting people have written down their thoughts and ideas.
- Other people are usually shyer, sweeter and kinder than we’d anticipated.
- We’ve perhaps found one good friend or a special someone.
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- We can write everything we feel down on paper.
- We can, without too much effort, order a bowl of French fries.
- Others forget the stupid things we’ve done faster than we do.
- Sincere apologies tend to be gladly accepted.
- We can reinvent ourselves – a bit.
- Parents keep on loving us even if we largely ignore them for a few years.
- Children continue to love us even if they say they don’t; and even if we were not always perfect parents.
- By the time we are forty, nothing we did or thought at the age of twenty will seem very important.
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- No-one can stop us having our own thoughts.
- We can with complete impunity fantasise about the people we can’t have.
- We can get to hear the jokes and stories of the funniest people on the planet.
- In the middle of the night, and in the early morning, we have the world to ourselves.
- It isn’t what happened to us that counts; but how we choose to tell the story.
- We do not know what will happen in the future.
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