Comedian Mitch Hedberg says that an escalator is never broken, it’s only “Temporarily Stairs”.
Being grateful day to day is probably a lot like using an escalator. Some days it’s easy to be grateful. Other days have rough patches where we’re tempted to write the whole thing off as a ‘bad day’, a day that’s essentially broken, a day that violates that invisible contract in our mind that promises only days of ease.
But a day is never “broken”, it’s just that some days have moments that turn out harder than usual, moments where the escalator to gratitude is not operational and we can only arrive there through our own determined effort.
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