Gratitude lists have always made me feel a bit well kinda yay but also nay (if that makes any sense).
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗴 - health, Nami, Family, the sunshine all totes true, all lovely jubbly
But also a big vague-ish…not really got any depth to them…
But this morning to get out of ungrateful grumpy are Mimi mode..I thought lets now look at what I am grateful for in my biz for a change
I wrote "electricity" n accidentally fell down a huge ass hole…
Because once you've written electricity you've gotta think about where it comes from, haven't u (well thats where my mind went).
the people in the shop I top up with. Then the teams behind them. The staff. The code thingy people (hmm my explaining is not explain so well lol, stay with me)
The electric box on me wall, n whoever fitted it. The electricians. The admin lot nobody thanks. The workers. The cables. The ladders yes the ladders…the people that make the ladders… Someone carried them ladders. Someone's dad probably.
N that's before you even get to where the actual power comes from, which is a whole other load of people I'll never meet, doin jobs I don't understand, in a place I couldn't point to on a map…
𝗢𝗢𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗙
N I'm sat there goin woah. All that. So I can turn me mac on….
Here's wot I reckon the problem is with the normal gratitude list. We go BROAD. Family, health, home, carrots, sunshine big fat categories, so big you can't actually feel em.
𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 "𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱." 🌍
Lovely. Means naff all really. Yer brain nods n moves on coz there's nowt to grab hold of…
Whereas pick one boring thing.
One dull AF, invisible, taken-for-granted thing. N then follow it backwards. Suddenly you're not listin what you've got, you're seeing the hundreds of people holdin it up.
Which is a completely different feeling. It's not "aren't I lucky", it's more like “fricken Nora, look how many hands this passed through to reach me." Wtf
Now that's the first time in ages I've felt genuinely less alone. Not from a person. From me electric charges…she writes as the wall thingy beeps…teehee pfffttt #grateful
𝗔𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆. 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹.
𝗦𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻..𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱…?
Just inking out loud, Mimi x x x ✍️