Being Thanksgiving Is Not Just for You, but for What It's Worth

i like to make a distinction between being thankful and being grateful. Most of a human's life is taken up by stuff that's not upside, so if most of your life doesn't fit into the category of upside, what happens to your capacity to be thankful? The answer is, it withers on the vine, doesn't it? It's just waiting for more upside. So i'm reserving the word gratitude for this. You cotton on to this understanding that the world's bigger than what's working out for you. Surely it includes the capacity to be grateful for things that benefit you in no way, direct or indirect, but they're in the world. They have some kind

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