Thanks for Small Things

I go on and on about the bad things in my life, I decided today to note some of the little things I'm thankful for. It can't be healthy to have all this negativity, right? Sometimes, when I feel so low, like nothing is going right, I'll be struck by something that may seem trivial - like the way sunlight makes a pattern on a marble floor, and I'm thankful. I'm thankful for the small things, and here are some small things I'm currently very grateful for. So, yeah, I'm thankful that my comprehensive exam is over (no matter that I didn't do so well on the last day). I'm thankful for the availability of orchids, for sale on almost every street in Bangkok for a very reasonable price. I'm thankful for the fact that I can get away with wearing sneakers everywhere. I'm thankful for my special edition Barbie and Ken as Scully and Mulder dolls. I'm thankful for the X-Files. I'm thankful I bought The Taming of the Shrew so I can read it anytime I want. I'm thankful I'm in a major where I actually understand about 80% of what's happening. I'm thankful that Goldfinger has a very long fuse. I'm thankful for my trusty printer, which has saved me countless hours of fighting others at school. I'm thankful for sunflowers, the happiest flower. I'm thankful for libraries, any and every library. I'm thankful Sittha is a good conversationalist, so I don't have to wallow long in awkward silence. I'm thankful for snow cones. I'm thankful for ergonomic designs. I'm thankful for origami. I'm thankful to you for reading this blog which I so inconsiderately did not write in list form for ease of reading.

Final thought: Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. Sometimes, they don't even have to be big moments.