I'm grateful I've realised how ungrateful I've been lately and have decided to try to be more aware. All that whingeing about what food I can and cannot eat is very spoilt and first worldish. I am very grateful for the fact I still have a need for food as I'd have been dead many times over if not for access to a developed health care system. I'm also grateful I can actually eat almost anything I like from a vast array of ingredients and products - many readily available in my own home at the click of a few keys - and it's entirely up to me how healthy or otherwise my diet is. I'm grateful I can make informed choices and can pick and choose from information sources too - and that if I choose to risk death by chocolate, fruit cake or jacket potato then that is up to me.
I give thanks I can still prepare and serve my own food either starting from scratch or using a ready made dish or component. Yes, sometimes it would be extremely fine and dandy to have a caterer and waiter here on hand, to say nothing of a washer up...but how lovely to be in charge of pretty much what you consume and when, and not have to be grateful for something you don't particularly want or like.
I give thanks for the pleasure of being outdoors for a short while earlier...and for that while being the brightest and driest part of the day. I give thanks for good natured cab and bus drivers, and various personnel in the shops and businesses I went to including some bantering GPs in the surgery carpark. I give thanks for Specsavers selling me my favourite pair of glasses ever...the lenses are just right, prisms and all and the frames are gorgeously green!
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