The Queen’s Meme #35 ~ The Gratitude Meme

Sometimes silly.
Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box.
Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one’s answers are quite like yours!

Sometimes life hands you pomegranates. You get wiser. Sometimes life hands you that icky lemonade. You get stickier. Sometimes life hands you a boatload of people who either enhance your journey in lovely ways or rock the boat off course just for the hell of it. You get an oar and row in your own direction. It happens to all of us. Either way, there’s gratitude to be found if you’re willing to look. Sometimes the conflicts are indeed blessings in disguise – you just don’t know it yet. Sometimes the storm IS the thing you will one day bless while you wait for calmer seas.
Maybe not today, but someday.
So find some patience and hang on.
We all have something to be grateful for one way or another.
I found a few things this week. I hope you did too.

The Gratitude Meme

1. What are you most grateful for when you first wake up in the morning?

My internet connection. That way I can get started on my writing day.

2. What are you most grateful for when you go to bed at night?

pajamas

3. Who is the person who has had the most influence on your life?

I just did a post about this…not a person, a character in book. Sara Crewe in A Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett

4. Is there someone you’d like to thank for something special they did for you but haven’t yet? Take the time to do it in this meme.

My dad. I have not thanked him for being accepting and supportive over this last year.

5. Who was your favorite or least favorite teacher?

Least Favorite: The teacher who paddled me for taking too long in the bathroom when I lived in Mississippi.

If you could talk to them now, what would you say?

I did not deserve to be paddled for that. A note home to my mom telling her I was talking in the bathroom would have been more fair. Also, You gave me nightmares for years. Meanie!!

6. Do you say grace at mealtime?

sometimes

7. Name one thing you take for granted everyday.

There is nothing I take for granted anymore. This last year has taught me that things are only temporary and people might not always be here.

8. Have you ever looked back at your life and realized that something you thought was a bad thing was actually a blessing in disguise?

Yes. My depression is one example. If I had not tried to commit suicide and had not started therapy, I would not have had the “do-over” with my mom that I have had. We have a better relationship now than we ever have.

9. What are the top five things you are most grateful for in your life?

1) My family
2) That I am alive
3) The new way I look at things
4) The new opportunities I have had
5) The phone call I got from my mother yesterday