Daily Cascade

Grateful

Prompt:
"I believe in me and am grateful for all that I have. "
Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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Nice prompt! As to what it is asking, I really cannot say I believe in me. This is because I am not made of stone and I can change. It is a good thing, too, to be able to change, and I have changed over the years...I think. I also cannot say I believe in me because my memory is not what it used to be, especially due to aging. Still, at the moment that I say anything, I mean it...usually.

As to being grateful, yes, that...I am. I always have been grateful even during the toughest times. In fact, one of the journals I keep is a gratefulness journal that I write into everyday. And I don't jot down only the positive events. With the negative ones, I try to find and cultivate reasons, solutions, and possible outcomes. I think this practice adds to my resilience and helps my focus away from negative thoughts and outlook to more uplifting ones.

Keeping this journal also taught me to appreciate the tiny joys like the cute salamander on the screen and finding a new leaf on a plant I thought was dying. Then, some of the things may sound like the repetitions of other pages, such as shelter, food, family, friends, WdC, etc., but they are the truth, and so be it.

Maybe, then, my gratefulness journaling is some kind of a self-belief, since it is so unlike the absence of self-belief about where I put my reading-glasses last or why I'm in a certain room at the moment or to do what did I come to the kitchen for.