A) This challenge!
You know, it has been really hard some days to come up something that I'm really grateful for on that particular day. I mean, there are the obvious things, of course: my health, my family's health, food, shelter, and so on. And I hope that I really don't take those things for granted. I try to thank God for them each day, and mean it, not just do it out of habit; because I know that any one of them could be taken away at any time.
But for this challenge I really wanted to try to come up with something each day that pertained particularly to that specific day. And sometimes it was hard, but it made me have to look back on the day and examine it a little. I think I may keep doing this, only maybe on a weekly basis, like, each week think back over the week to find something unexpected to be grateful for.
B) Air conditioning!
I have to be obvious on this 100°+ day, and say that I don't think I've ever been more grateful for air conditioning. I am grateful that my mother has air conditioning, too.
When we were growing up we didn't have air conditioning, and, actually, we didn't usually need it. Our house was on a little hill that almost always caught a breeze. Even on the few summer days that were sweltering, a fan, a glass of iced tea, and a run through the sprinkler would be enough to cool us off until the sun went down.
But as the planet started getting warmer and more humid for a bigger part of the year we finally talked my parents into getting central air. And last week my mother told me that she was so thankful for it, even though she was surprised at how the heat would get to her now when it never did before. At her age she doesn't need to be getting that hot. I think tomorrow is supposed to be even worse than today.
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Amen to that! WE have it too good here in USA. I remember when I was a child, in the early sixties, laying on my bed at night, trying to fall asleep, my face pressed up against the screen on the window by my bed, desperate for a cool breeze, and getting none. When I was a teen, and still we had no air conditioning, and I'd lay in my bed with the least amount of clothing I could wear and still be decent. I discovered that my portable hair dryer had a cool air setting. I turned it on and aimed the air stream at my face... I did this for a few nights before my mother found out and told me not to use it like that. She said I'd burn up the little motor inside if I kept it running all night like that. When I went to college, there was no air conditioning in my building... looking back, I don't know how I made it through four years like that, but I did. I suppose that is why I'm not having too much trouble adjusting to the hot flashes now that menopause is upon me. My body remembers... and even during a hot flash, I just wait for it to be over, keep doing whatever I was doing when it started. Sometimes you just got to sweat it out!! I am grateful to be finally experiencing this stage of my life so I can get it over with and move on. Bea
I too am thankful for my A/C. Growing up we didn't have it or even a fan. Nor were we allowed to play in the water as our water was piped from the neighbor. Daddy paid them I think $2.00 a month and he would have never allowed us to waste it. When I lived in san antonio and my husband was alive he installed central in our house himself. The day we turned it on for the first time his parents and brother came over and it was like a celebration. Thank you God for A/C. Paula
yeah isn't it funny to think that some people had to live without it! hugs,nat
The "Grateful Challenge" was a good one...I really enjoyed it, although, like you mentioned, some days it was HARD! Jae
I really enjoyed the gratitude challenge too :-)
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