taking stock
Apr. 24th, 2012 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicI just checked, and it appears that my first gratitude post appeared on March 31, 2009.
Thinking about sutff today, I would say that I am happier with my life now than I was back when I was: younger, in better health and more energetic, and had more free time and fewer responsibilities than today. I also believe that I am now coping with my tendency to depression more effectively than I did even when I was on meds for it (and they were a major turning point for me, I would say those meds saved my life and made all the difference in the world for me). Objectively, I had more reasons to be happy in the past than I do now, but it doesn't seem to be working out that way.
I find it tempting to attribute these improvements in my life to the gratitude posts. I realize that it could just be coincidence, and these changes could simply be a result of better perspective, experience, or whatnot. But I confess that I started doing the posts because I had read that this was an exercise that would make a noticeable improvement in your mind and in your life. I went into it hoping it would work, but not really sure that I believed it -- figured there was no harm in trying.
If things really are so different for me now on account of the gratitude, I will admit that I never dreamed they would make such a marked difference as this. Whatever the true explanation is, I find that I am in a good place in my life now and I do not take it for granted.
Thus endeth the sermon.
Thinking about sutff today, I would say that I am happier with my life now than I was back when I was: younger, in better health and more energetic, and had more free time and fewer responsibilities than today. I also believe that I am now coping with my tendency to depression more effectively than I did even when I was on meds for it (and they were a major turning point for me, I would say those meds saved my life and made all the difference in the world for me). Objectively, I had more reasons to be happy in the past than I do now, but it doesn't seem to be working out that way.
I find it tempting to attribute these improvements in my life to the gratitude posts. I realize that it could just be coincidence, and these changes could simply be a result of better perspective, experience, or whatnot. But I confess that I started doing the posts because I had read that this was an exercise that would make a noticeable improvement in your mind and in your life. I went into it hoping it would work, but not really sure that I believed it -- figured there was no harm in trying.
If things really are so different for me now on account of the gratitude, I will admit that I never dreamed they would make such a marked difference as this. Whatever the true explanation is, I find that I am in a good place in my life now and I do not take it for granted.
Thus endeth the sermon.
