Wide Awake and Grateful

For so long, I have been asleep and unconscious to life. When one grows up, finishes school, gets a job, then another job and another, it is easy to sail along with whatever life brings. Sure, periodically I woke up, reassessed, did something about my life but easily fell back to sleep. I am grateful now for the past few months. It has brought me the gift of consciousness. I am awake now and intend to stay that way as often and as long as I can. I just need to leave myself plenty of reminders.

It's amazing how much clarity has come to me lately. I have had the luxury of time and silence to start to rediscover what has been dormant for so long. It makes me feel more prepared to be grateful for the incredible journey ahead. Had I been asleep still, I might have been happy but not grateful. I want to be grateful. I am grateful.