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A reminder to be grateful

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I’m not a big hockey fan like Michelle is, but my mother and sister are and their hollering during yesterday’s game was impossible to ignore, and served as an easy way to keep track of how the home team was doing.

jason-blake.jpgUnfortunately, during one of their lulls, I heard that a hockey player, Jason Blake, had been diagnosed with leukemia and in an interview, he expressed his optimism and his plans to continue to play as usual. He is not the first hockey player to be diagnosed with cancer during the hockey season: Mario Lemieux and Saku Koivu were able to return to the sport following treatment.

The reason why this bad news was so timely for me is I have been wallowing of late at the state of my own life, how dull and boring it is and how nothing exciting ever happens. It’s gotten to the point where I have considered making up making up something like “I’m moving to Australia for a year to work in an apple orchard” or “I’m pregnant-I think it was the guy at the club last weekend”, just so I don’t have to say my usual “Oh, everything’s fine. Nothing exciting has happened” when friends, all with lives far more titillating than mine, ask me how I’m doing. I haven’t done anything to inject my life with fun, unless complaints and sighing are considered useful tactics.

But after hearing this news, I was humbled. Instead of moaning at the utter mundaneness of my life, I’ve decided to be grateful that no excitement in the form of bad news has reached my ears. I’m glad that my health is good (*knock on wood*), I have food to eat, family to laugh with, and a shelter over my head. Really, I have nothing big to complain about. And once again, it’s taken a reminder of what could be happening to remind me to be grateful for what I’ve got.


One Response to “A reminder to be grateful”

  1. Amanda Says:

    I know how you feel. I often think that my life is boring, but then some interesting-ness gets injected and sometimes that’s not all too much fun, either.

    Sigh.

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