I’m just grateful

I’m sitting down at college right now, and I’ve got all the standard thoughts going through my head. Assignments due, thinking what I’ll do later, need to get a job, probably should get up some courage and ask her out…

And as I’m staring out the window, I’m realizing more and more that I have a lot of amazing things in my life. In the world that surrounds me.

This started with a leaf. I looked out that window earlier, and I looked at the leaf of a plant. And I felt…content. Peaceful. Happy. Almost relief. I’m realizing from the leaf and onward, I’m grateful for so many amazing things.

I love the beauty around me. The trees that sway in the breeze, the heat of the sun warming my face, the blue sapphire sky blanketing the heavens, the purest clouds dotting and decorating the sky. I love the towering mountains, their majestic peaks and daunting cliffs.

Now I’m looking at what’s inside the window. And I mean from the inside, I guess the window isn’t needed now. I’m looking at the people walking around me. I hear the people talking next to me. I’m actually waiting for friends to show up, and that joyful anticipation is the best. Yet amidst the shuffle of people (though students, I like to think of them primarily as people) I’m getting that feeling again. I love these people, and I don’t even know them. I don’t really care what they look like, what they say or do. I realize I’m one of them, I am not separate from them. I am an individual, but we are one. I’m grateful to be part of this family, though many distant relatives I don’t talk to on a daily basis.

I don’t know why, and I can’t explain well why, but in my own way, I’m just…

grateful.

Just look around, you’ll get what I mean.