Truth: I’m very tired and have spent the last several hours researching flights and crunching numbers.
Truth: This summer will be very expensive and I’m rather concerned/anxious/fretful about this.
Truth: I don’t have any real major truths or insights about my rather uneventful (but good) day, so here is my list of 5 things I’m grateful for right now:
- A Monday without an alarm — how blissful it was to wake up in my own time this morning!
- Hitting the 4K mark again. It was hard, and I felt nauseous again upon reaching 3.2K… (note to self: Google “how to not feel nauseous when running) but I made it.
- Fresh fruit stands and access to fresh fruit in general — year round! I am never wanting; I’m so lucky.
- The dedication, perseverance, care, and human ingenuity of society to realize not only that worldwide carbon consumption is so out of control that we have to offset it, but also that we need a set of standards to make sure that said offsetting is done properly. I LOVE the people who first came up with this stuff, whomever they are. Love love love. (I’m embarrassed that Canada is not part of the Kyoto Protocol but that is another story altogether.)
- Friends in other countries who go out of their way to maintain bonds. As you know, I’m superoutofthisworld grateful for my friends here in Singapore, but I’m equally superoutofthisworld grateful for my friends flung all ’round the earth who make efforts to reach out, connect, share, and engage in order to keep close ties with me. I appreciate it so much, as I know it’s not always easy (particularly with time zone craziness). Sometimes it’s just the little things — a funny FB joke here, a silly WhatsApp message there, a random photo in my email — that really make me feel like these friends are not so far away after all.
