I am grateful for

The avari afternoon sun

I am always looking for something new without savouring what is currently in front of me that leads me to become unhappy without knowing that at some point in the past this was all I hoped for. I am grateful for those moments where I realize this and have a change of mindset and everything feels good again. 

So, today I am going to write down the things that I am grateful for. It's a public holiday in UAE and I have the time to have slow mornings like this and I enjoy these moments so much. Even though we're mostly working from home, and that we can have slow mornings if we want to because I save up 40 minutes of the commute from home to work, it just is not the same when you know you don't have things to think of. So I am grateful for days when I have slow mornings - just enjoying my black coffee and listening to lo-fi music and just be still and write. 

I am very grateful that I have a little place I can call home. I just recently transferred to a new place and it feels much better as compared to my previous home. I miss the people that I've known there for sure however it was time to move on from that. Right now, the bright morning sun shows up on my windows and it makes my day much better without having lived in it yet. And the golden afternoon sun that reflects on the glass building adjacent to mine shows up again on my windows - it's lovely. I have plants to tend to as well. Plants make me happy - I spent most of my childhood in my parents' garden and a yearly visit to the farm resets my messy mindset, as always.  

I am grateful for my family and close friends. Always. Even though we are all far apart, I know that we belong to something simply because we are there for each other. We do not talk online every single day but when we do, it always feels like we're together. I hope one day we can all be together again. 

I am grateful for having the means to live here and for having a career that gave me growth over the six years that I worked for them. I am forever grateful for them.

And lastly, I am grateful for having the access to hear stories from strangers about their lives abroad - how they achieved this and this and this and that it is going to be tough but it is going to be worth it. Surely, I have dreams and goals in life and where I want to be. And these stories somehow uplift my spirits (haha) because I am aware that it is never going to be easy but I am up for it. 💚