Gratitudinal

[elixxir]

I wonder what I might have become if my dad had loved me instead of alcohol

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[deezle]

Two anecdotes that relate

[elixxir]

Holy shit seriously saddest childhood ever. That just shouldn't even be possible to happen. Wow.

[silentq]

I'm glad to hear that you're happy. :-)

[greylock]

I am all kinds of awesome. I totally crack myself up. Must be a side effect of Only Child Sundrome but I have never needed anyone to entertain me.

Nephew was an only child. At 2.5yo he could not entertain himself for two minutes.
Is that normal? What is normal for kids that age?

I start wondering if this gratitude thing isn't genetic somehow?

I doubt it.
I'm ungrateful.
My pet theory is that it might have something to do with the peaks and troughs of various ends of the emotional spectrum.
But medical ethics won't let me test this out.

I am feeling in a good enough place to want to celebrate my birthday again.

Happy birthday. I will vodka in your honour

[astrocrabpuff]

Genetics maybe? But nuture plays its part, too. And then there's personality, which you have so much of and so lovely.

I'm glad to hear you're in a good space (and stitches free). <3

[to_thine_own]

I'm the same way with gratitude. Before moving into the condo I was so amazed and grateful once a week that people come and take away my garbage. And now I have a garbage CHUTE! And we live somewhere that includes sanitation of our shits. That's crazy! I marvel at how amazing things really are. I always feel so damn lucky. But I could easily tell my childhood and most of my adulthood as a hard luck tale. And yet mostly, I'm tripping over bliss.