Gratitude

I am grateful for the richness of experiences enjoyed by the human condition.

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The catalogue includes things nobody would choose. Grief, humiliation, the specific dread of waiting on test results. Being human is not a highlight reel, and pretending otherwise makes the gratitude thin.

What's genuinely remarkable is the range. The same creature that can be flattened by a phone call can also be undone, an hour later, by a child mispronouncing a word. The capacity for one is the capacity for the other. You don't get the second by amputating the first.

If something moved you this week — in either direction — that's the equipment working, not failing.