thanks to give

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onto today’s topic: thanks to give 🦃 

jumping from canada to the us, thanksgiving doesn’t really fall on a specific date for me. i was at school during canadian thanksgiving, and it didn’t make sense to go home during american thanksgiving (everyone would be at school/work and i would be heading home in 2 weeks anyways.

so, i found myself in san francisco for thanksgiving. i finally satisfied my long overdue craving of going on a solo date in the big city after being deprived for months (turns out, i’m a bigger city girl than i thought i was), and the solitude gave me some good time to reflect on gratitude. ⭐️ 

the very first post i ever wrote on this blog was about my gratitude for my parents’ faith in me. that is still very much true, and this appreciation has only grown deeper with each day spent apart.

it’s true what they say about distance making the heart grow fonder. that distance has allowed me to love being myself, come to terms with my aspirations, and discover what really makes me happy. for the most part, i feel very certain in my sense of self which is why my heart has never felt so overwhelmingly fond. 💗 i’m grateful for the family, friends, mentors, past and future relationships, and fateful strangers that make my heart soft.

i have haven’t ever thought of myself as a particularly loving or affectionate person — i was convinced there was something wrong with me for being this way. i’m grateful for the safety net of food, shelter, and financial security that i have had while chasing personal growth through establishing this distance, which assured me that truly, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with me.

i’m grateful to each and every single one of you reading this right now for giving me some purpose to every single day for the past 16 months. 🗓️ i know i sparked something, anything, for someone, and that alone is enough for me to go to sleep with a smile on my face.

more than anything, i’m grateful for the true limitless nature of life. it gives me hope for the future, contentment in the present, and acceptance of the past. there’s so much to life, and those endless possibilities are something to be grateful for. 🌈 

thanks. :)

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