Gratitude Journal Of People, Places And Things

Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have

- Smt. Sujatha Rao

Thanksgiving season reminds me that no matter where, with what, or with whom we are in life, we have so much to be grateful for. When you look around with gratitude-filled eyes, there is so much splendour lurking around you that you can find something positive in everything well, almost everything.

So, with the seasonal nostalgia and childlike enthusiasm kicking in, decided to give my small gratitude journal a go with the help of the popular childhood game People, Places and Things, since life’s beauty often lies in the time we spend with people we love, in the spaces that invigorate us and doing things we enjoy.

People

Though there are so many wonderful people in my life to be grateful for, choose to highlight here, some relations-in-law which are not often talked about in a positive light.

| grew up with three brothers and no sisters in a small town in South India. It wasn’t until the arrival of my sisters-in-law, one by one, as and when my brothers got married, that got to know the pleasures of having the Sister(-in-law) Act 1,2 and 3” in my life with the surprise bonus Acts 4 and 5 getting added later on, through the entry of unexpected sisters-in law on to the scene. It was a sheer coincidence that four of them happened to be somewhat similar in their short, petite frames. But it does feel like providence that all of them turned out to be more like sisters to me.