That's really true. We rarely appreciate what we have until it is taken away or we meet someone who doesn't have it. Then empathy happens.
I've been told that a good way to start each day is to develop a gratefulness habit by writing down 3 things - or 5 or more - we are thankful for.
At the very least, it's writing practice. And writing, like family relationships, needs work, tweaking, and commitment from those involved in order to sit just right.
I think it's all too easy to become self-centered and wrapped up in our own troubles that we miss the world around us.
I make a habit of daily listing the things I'm thankful for in a journal. One thing that I need to start doing is at the end of the day, think of the best thing that happened that day. That forces you to think of all the good things and come up with what was the best. Then you wake up the next morning remembering those good things.
Do you write? I highly recommend visiting The Writer's Block on Discord in the above link - it's a great group of support for all kinds of writing.
Well said!
That's a good idea - ending each day by thinking of the best thing that happened. Then the whole day would be hopefully caught up in a much needed parenthesis of gratefulness.
I'm trying to ease myself slowly into writing although I won't be able to dedicate much time to it yet. The Writer's Block is on my feed, though.