Dec 31 2008
Grateful
It might sound depressing but I’ve been thinking about getting old in recent weeks.
I suppose it’s partially due to the looming end of year, which tends to put me in a retrospective mood and gets me reflecting on the meaning of life, the passing of time etc.
But it’s also linked to the fact that I’ve been nursing my first major injury that is affecting my enjoyment of physical activity for the first time since I started playing sports at the age of 5.
A freak slip during a simple warm-up jog about four months ago has left me with an inflammed tendon in my knee and I can’t run more than 10 metres without shooting pains.
I’ve been quite fortunate so far in that I’ve evaded serious injuries, so I can tell you that this latest injury was quite traumatising for me.
Scenes like this are definitely on hold for awhile.
But even as I sit and whine a little about being old and decrepit, it’s dawned on me that another 12 months have come and gone.
Soon, 2009 will be upon us and, as I’m sure all of you know, it’s shaping up to be a tricky year for everyone.
The economy is rocky, the environment is getting worse, and solutions are few and far between.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that things will turn out ok, and I have a feeling that they will, in that funny way they have of doing so.
But an email from a colleague leaving for another job made me pause and think too. The email ended with a quote from an author that basically encouraged all of us to think of someone to say “thank you” to each day as a way of encouraging us to be more aware of all the things we have to be grateful for in this life.
This then helps to lift us up out of any gloom and doom and general depression, something that is especially useful in these trying times.
So, with just under 10 hours to go before we hit 2009, I thought I’d pen down some of the things I’m grateful for.
My family is healthy and largely happy. I have a challenging job that pays the bills (more or less) and a boss who inspires me to do and be my best and colleagues who make me look forward to coming into the office. Despite a growing beer belly and creaking joints, I’m pretty healthy. I have found things I am passionate about and have been given the chance to make a difference in these areas. I have friends who make me laugh and who will have my back when it counts. I’m not currently in love but I love my life.
Now that I think about it, I can’t really complain. So thank you to everyone who’s been part of my life this year. I can’t wait for the new year to start!
What do you have to be grateful for?
Happy New Year everyone! See you in 2009.
Hi!
Everybody thinks of his or her life sometimes, of the things would come, of age and even death. In a gloomy night, you sit and let your mind draw you “withersoever”. But when you look around and think of people who have walked pass your life or those who are staying with you, I’m sure there must be someone you love and love you. Your ideas are not bad but somehow they’re kind of dark. Just open the door of your mind to let sunshine stream into it, you’ll feel much better.
Tomorrow when you pluck up a bit courage to say hello to a stranger, you will know that life is not that bad. Believe me: “Everybody hurts sometimes, sometimes everything is wrong” ,but “hang on”!
Happy New Year!
Hey man Nicky,
I am grateful for the good and the bad , the ying and the yang,
the fertile crescent and the impovish desert.
Your fitness , strength and youth is relative to fatigue weakness and age. It does not exist independently without the other. Nothing is intrinsically exclusive . It is only agony when one holds on dearly to one relative to the other . Run if you can, walk if you like , wheel should you have to. ” Action in motion ” such a thrill to many athletes , obsessive sometimes . Can one possibly be grateful when one is obsessed. Rhetorical question ?
I am grateful for the consciouness I have. I am even more grateful to the subconsciusness I have. Unbasie and submissive, able to enjoy all levels of equilibrium and disequilibrium. Knowing the difference.
My little thought.
Possibly a load of rubbish .