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Today Aneeta, I am thankful for coffee
Today Aneeta, I am thankful for coffee. Simply because on days like this, where I have had less than 3 hours sleep (and these days come along way too often), coffee is always there to get me through the day until it's time to go home and nap.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for distance. I'm currently over 5,000 miles away from someone I love very much, which is effectively on the other side of the planet. Its almost impossible to communicate with her, text messages are banned by her military dictatorship government, internet is scarce and a massive luxury, telephone lines only make a connection 1 in every 100 calls (I actually spent £50 trying to connect to her and managed about 30 seconds of speaking to her), post coming into her country is opened and inspected and sometimes not actually delivered, its just difficult as you'd imagine. And for all the reasons I hate it and for every minute I sit there wondering how our life would be if she were back in the UK I can't help but be thankful for the reflection time I get. Sometimes you never really do comprehend how valuable something or someone is to you until it or they are no longer around. It's bittersweet because your heart feels broken yet you don't feel like you've felt this much love before. Your heart breaks and grows twice as strong with every fragment that falls away. I'm thankful for my heart feeling stronger, I feel more compassionate, I'm lucky to not have everything I want in life because it gives me a grounded view on what goes on and as a result I truly feel a love and compassion for everything around me. Some day soon I'd like to get her back though Aneeta, this can't possibly be a lifetime gig, there are only so many fragments that can break off..
Today Aneeta I am thankful for bicycles. They look cool and are fun to ride, you can learn tricks on them and take them anywhere you go. You can even get ones that fold up so you can carry it around. There isn't an end to the amount of styles and cool gadgets you get on them and when I was a kid I had this awesome monster munch monster on my handlebars that made noises and his eyes lit up when you pressed buttons. Also when we run out of petrol the world will use bikes and get fit again. Thank you bikes!
Today Aneeta I am thankful for my friend Sophie. She's in New Zealand at the moment but she kinda made me into a better person. She somehow managed to get it into my head to say "you're welcome" when someone thanks me. Normally I would say "s'alright" or something just as informal and un emotional. But I remember thinking that she's probably the only person my age who says it, and then I realised quite quickly that I had adopted it myself.. In a cool way I feel like that means she's always gonna be a part of me because I have absorbed a small part of her way of speaking.
Family
Today Aneeta I am thankful for family. Its weird how strong bonds can be between people who have no choice of living together. I mean, I love my family but I didn't choose them and given the option I might have opted to go for a family of travelling rockstars who frequently fly into space, but I'm really glad I didn't get that kind of choice. I doubt I would have scored myself such a kind, caring, and loving family as I have with this one. I definitely am lucky and amazed at the ties that have grown through us strangers who have lived and grown up together. I love them.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for rejection. Specifically in the kind of being rejected by the opposite sex. Sure it breaks your heart after you've gone through all the effort and the nerves of trying to get to know someone new and reaching the apex of your might to tell them you like the. It hurts like hell. But at the end of the day it has its fantastic and wonderful perks. For example, everytime I am rejected by a girl my ego shrinks from the size of a rocket ship to the size of a walnut. Egos are lighter than air and if you let them get too big they will take you far up out of the realms of reality, killing the ego is the only way to stay grounded and ultimately be a good person. Your ego is your enemy (long as it doesn't drag your sense of self esteem with it) and its a good thing to kill it every now and again to keep it in check.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for compassion. Its so easy to show compassion to people, whether you give them a present or a hug or a compliment or whatever. So long as you do it truthfully and outta compassion then everybody wins. There have been two or three times recently when I've literally wanted to explode but I found when I showed compassion to other people I helped make myself feel better. Compassion is the only tool we have for making the world a better place and I intend to be well equipped.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for darkness. I know I have previously been thankful for light and I do love light and everything but tonight I'm thankful for the absence of it. The street lamps are being switched off late at night in my area, I think to save money? But anyway it is stunning now. I can literally see millions of stars in the sky. All I gotta do is look up and try not to get a neck ache. :)
Today Aneeta I am thankful for rice. I literally could live off only rice and be happy as larry. If someone were to come along and say 'that's it! There's no more rice now, forever', then I would lock myself in a laboratory until I'd recreated rice using rice dna that is most likely preserved in my belly from decades of eating so much. Rice is my god and the rice man who brings it to me is my saviour. I bow to thee, o mighty rice!!
Today Aneeta I am thankful for laughing. I have some friends who when I'm with them I just literally don't stop. Tears roll down my cheeks, my sides hurt, my chest aches, my cheeks feel like they've expanded and I can't breathe. These are the exact kind of moments I want to reproduce over and over again in life, they're what makes living in a stressful boxed in society all worth it. Laughing with friends is the number one thing I love to do!!
Today Aneeta I am thankful for Batman. I know he's fictional and his live action tv series was a little fruity but the man has taught us that you don't need to have super powers to be a super person. Although it can be taken that you need a shitload of money. Batman has pretty much everything he wants in life; disillusioned by the life extreme wealth and power has given him he decides that the Gotham police force are clearly not good enough at their job and so decides to wear a gray bathing suit and beat people up. Anyways, he helps a lot of people, mostly through violence, but the important part is that he doesn't need to. That's why I'm thankful for him.. Also because Natalie told me to be thankful for him. P.S. Fuck Robin.
Today Aneeta, I am thankful for the sense of security that my friends give me. On saturday night when it looked likely some bad shit was gonna go down my friends made me feel really secure and happy. I calmed down and then danced with them.. While covered in pen ink drawings on my body and a tight pink spongebob t-shirt.. :)
Today Aneeta I am thankful for random acts of kindness. Last week I was wearing a t-shirt which read 'FREE HUGS' and I was calmly walking down st albans high street with my sister when a gang of guys came running at me with incredible speed. One of them shouted out 'free hugs!!' And they all circled me and hugged me. It was the funniest random thing to happen to me ever, I think. When they did it a second time on my way back it was still just as funny as the first.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for my sisters' dog, chewie. She is a chow chow and looks more like a bear. She has a massive heart and is always happy to see me; she got depressed and lonely when the other dog, Jessie, died so I made her happy again with massages and treats. But most of all she taught me not to be so terrified of dogs. Even though I'm actually still terrified of dogs, I'm glad to know I have her to be fearless around.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for not being hurt in the riots, even though I was close to some of the scary stuff. I'm also incredibly thankful for the wonderful sense of community that came about from setting up the local neighbourhood watch on Facebook. It warms my heart to know I live in a town full of kind hearted people willing to put themselves on the line for the greater good.
Today Aneeta I am thankful for Aneeta. It is her birthday today and I know she might not be in the mood for celebrating considering recent events but I think it's still nice to let her know just how appreciated she is. She has like, a million and one friends and I honestly don't know a single person who doesn't love her. I owe a lot to her and just wanted her to know that she is more than appreciated, she is extraordinary and should she need or want anything I'm always gonna be ready to dive in and help her out! Not just because she has helped me more than I can even start to imagine, but just because she's a thoroughly great person. I hope she has a wonderful day and that life returns to it's normal, wonderful, crazy self for her
Today Aneeta I am thankful for pigeons. I know that most people hate them and think they are disease ridden vermin (although I must stress that the diseases they do carry can't be transferred to a human unless you eat their poop, which I honestly don't think anyone will willingly do) but I genuinely think they are one of the coolest types of bird out there today. Firstly because they are so varied; we have doves, dodo's, pink pigeons, fan-tailed pigeons, etc. Some of them are incredibly beautiful, I've only once ever seen a fan-tailed pigeon and it took my breathe away, literally! Secondly because they helped save a LOT of lives during the previous world wars. There's a famous pigeon known as Cher Ami, which was given to the US by us brits during the first world war. Roughly 500 men were trapped by German soldiers and they had no choice but to call for help, the first two pigeons they sent were unfortunately gunned down. Cher, the third to be sent, was also shot down. Amazingly the pigeon took flight again and flew back to its headquarters with the message. It had travelled 25 miles in 25 minutes with a bullet in its breast, a blinded eye, covered in its own blood and its leg hanging off by a tendon. That is an incredible thing to do. The medics worked hard to help the pigeon to recover, they obviously couldn't do anything about his leg so they carved him a wooden one and awarded him with the Croix de Guerre Medal. This is just one of hundreds of pigeons who have served to save countless human lives during wartime! Think twice before you curse pigeons please?