One way to think about gratitude is to think of it as if you were moving through a landscape, intentionally looking for the smallest, beautiful things worth noticing. You might notice flowers or blades of grass or dragonflies swarming about. As you move through the space, noticing those small things, you may eventually reach a point where those small things aren’t so small at all, and slowly but surely, they become a part of a bigger picture. This doesn’t mean that everything is perfect or easy in this landscape. However, by navigating in such a way that you were focusing on those small things, you start to notice that there was more to the picture than you may have initially realized.
When it comes to real life, we may not be able to create a comprehensive gratitude list for every single thing every day, but we can practice looking for small ways to acknowledge what we are grateful for and let it become a way of exploring where we are in a new way. This doesn’t mean we’re ignoring everything else, instead, it’s a way to go deeper where we are, how we can. – Here’s to gratitude, even in the smallest ways…a way of moving through experience…a way of noticing how the “good small things” might become not so small at all, on the journey, one day at a time. – Morgan Harper Nichols
