Take a look around. You have an insane amount of things to be grateful for on any given day. Here is a short list of some of them in no particular order, but I encourage you to think of your own, especially when you catch yourself starting to take these undeserved blessings for granted.
1. Internet at your fingertips
2. Bad days, otherwise how would you know what a good day was?
3. Easily accessible food
4. Air conditioning
5. Medicine
6. The fact that you can see pictures of the most breathtaking places on earth, even if you cannot yet travel there
7. The ability to quickly communicate with each other in multiple ways
8. Functioning showers
9. Friends that are super different than you
10. The opportunity to get an education
11. Your alarm clock
12. Chick-fil-A
13. Roommates (the wonderful and the awful)
14. Transportation
15. Freedom of speech
16. Tears; they are cathartic and speak when words don't suffice
17. Southern hospitality
18. The fact that there is always something new to be learned
19. Filtered water
20. Handwriting and its uniqueness
21. Law enforcement
22. The ability to vote
23. Toilet paper
24. Bluebonnets (@Texascitizens)
25. The kindness of strangers
26. The fact that you have enough downtime to be reading this article right now
27. Brunch, gotta love it
28. Leaves changing in the fall and the sides of interstate lined with flowers in the spring
29. Religious freedom
30. Skype and Facetime
31. Dishwashers
32. The ability to more or less control elements of your appearance (make-up, hair dye, exercise)
33. Music
34. The military
35. Online shopping
36. Your passion, whatever that may be
37. Stop lights
38. Deodorant
39. Forgiveness, giving and receiving
40. The fact that you don't have to churn your own butter
41. Your bed
42. Plants that take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen
43. Dog videos
44. Indoor plumbing
45. Globalization and how it can effect world change
46. Washers/dryers
47. High camera quality
48. The fact that there is almost always a word to describe how you are feeling, even if you have to borrow it from a foreign language
49. Life hacks that make tasks just a little bit easier
50. Your go-to beverage (coffee, sweet tea, etc.)
51. Doubt that makes you engage more deeply with what you believe
52. Pretty flowers
53. Spotify
54. All of the DIY projects made possible by Pinterest
55. Unprecedented cultural diversity in a single country
56. Nostalgic smells
57. Extracurricular opportunities
58. Good hair days
59. Stained glass windows
60. The times that someone has seen something in you that you didn't see in yourself
61. Your health
62. RetailMeNot
63. The fact that you have the resources to learn how our country came to be
64. Freedom of the press
65. Instagram filters
66. The accessibility of God's word
67. Sunsets
68. The 23,768 Starbucks stores in existence
69. Toothpaste
70. Anything free
71. The fact that you woke up this morning.
72. God's consistency and omnipresence. Even if all of the things on this list were to vanish, God wouldn't.
This life is good, do yourself a favor and don't forget that.
