Let's see if this gratitude thing works

[sabotabby]

A FB friend with whom I have many and frequent disagreements asked people what they're grateful for. My general response to having a year from hell that culminates in a civilization-shaking plague is not to be grateful about it, but there actually are a few things and I'd be remiss if I didn't state them.

Part of the reason why I don't keep track of things I'm grateful for is that I feel like it's tempting capricious fate/the uncaring universe/the Elder Gods to talk about good things, lest you paint a target on them. So assume a knock wood after all of these things:

I am grateful that:

• No one I know or love has died yet
• I am still getting paid for now and have a roof over my head
• My cat hasn't gotten worse
• I have a supportive online community that is keeping me sane-ish
• I've cultivated an inner life and can handle solitude
• I went vegan and had to learn how to be resourceful in cooking, particularly with canned foods well before this
• No one in the neighbourhood likes the same ramen that I do
• I put so much of my work online already and don't have to necessarily scramble from scratch
• People in my neighbourhood are mostly serious about social distancing
• There's a thread on the caremongering group that is about what we're going to do when all this is over because sometimes it seems like this will never be over
• You're reading this, and I'm grateful for you

There, did I do it right?

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[mistersmearcase]

Knocking on wood/saying keinahora is the only one I am sort of compelled to do. (I settle for knock on head a lot of the time.) I have one or two others I think are cute and do some of the time, like throwing salt over my shoulder if I spill it. I think there's one other. Even the knocking on wood one makes me feel silly since I believe in no supernatural anything but I guess maybe you could count the almost sentient-feeling unfair awfulness of life as a higher power, right?

I may do a similar list to this one today. Keinahora.

[sabotabby]

I do the salt thing too. And the knocking on wood thing, though sometimes I just say it or knock on my head.