Things I am thankful for, today and in general

[maradydd]

Waking up under warm sheets and blankets in an intimately familiar room, even if it is a repository of artifacts of Meredith, Age 16, complete with smudgy blu-tack marks on the ceiling from the posters I put there when I was younger. You never really do go home again, but I'm glad that I haven't lost all of where I came from, and I'm glad that I can recover some of it from time to time.

Having a wide range of options for the next few years, even if sometimes it looks like there are too many options, and even if attractive options sometimes conflict with one another. I forget, sometimes, just how big the world is and how many interesting ideas and people there are in it -- I get so distracted with the interesting ideas and people in my small corner of it -- and while it can be startling at first, the brain adapts and I'm better off for it. Depth and breadth and complexity and patterns. The world is a beautiful place and I am glad to be in it.

enochsmiles and yoctohedron. I am the luckiest girl alive. Thank you for being.

The fact that there's still unexplored territory out there, millions of ideas waiting to be investigated, and billions more waiting to be carved out as extensions of things we have yet to discover. But even more than that, the fact that there are people, friends, to share those ideas with -- to nurture them, help them grow, and strengthen and deepen our friendships in the process. Thank you, everyone who's ever worked with me, kicked around a design or a problem with me, brainstormed into the night, listened, sketched, explained, or even just gone off to a 24-hour diner with me afterward. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for building. All the ideas in the world mean nothing without people to enjoy them, and all the people in the world are shells without the spark of creativity and communication. Thank you for making the world a better place, even if you don't realise that's what you're doing.

Kittens. That should require no explanation. (There are five in the house right now.)

Days like this one, which suggest to us that it's a good thing to take stock of and remember the pleasant and beneficial things in one's life. I should really do that more often.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Comments

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

*squeeze*

And we are the luckiest boys alive. :) Thank you.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

You make the third person in a row on my friends list to be thankful for kittens. :)

-Ogre

A valediction on kittens

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Indeed, there is much to be thankful for where kittens are concerned. Kittens are furry, and their normal body temperature is somewhere around 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes them little fuzzy hot-water bottles, suitable for keeping laps and chests warm on cold nights. Kittens are playful and have no sense of shame, a refreshing thing in a world so full of people embarrassed to enjoy themselves and be who they are. Kittens are by turns fearless, like the one we have who fights the rottweiler and wins, or small and helpless, like the one I used to have who was afraid of being higher off the ground than he was tall. They bring out our sense of adventure and our sense of protectiveness at the same time. They are stress magnets, and know just when to leap onto a bed with a "prrt!" in order to ease the worries of a troubled human. They free us from our attachment to material goods, by ridding us of things like upholstery and carpet.

Indeed, let us all give praise to kittens.