12 days of thankfulness – Day 11: Family and friends
Day 11: Family and friends
On the eleventh day of thankfulness…
Ok, so I feel guilty for the shameless day 10 post. But please allow me to reprieve myself with today’s post.
I am very thankful for having such loving family and friends. When working in the position earlier this year of ‘employment consultant’, I met so many different people that had suffered severe family break-downs and literally had no one to turn to. Unemployment is horrific even for someone with a supportive family, but on your own I can only imagine how devastating to mind, body, and spirit it would. I am thankful that I can share my highs and get support with the lows, with any of my family and friends.
I am thankful for having a wife who loves me and who (mostly) always believes in the kooky ideas I come up with. A few years back I almost gave up on my beer blog because I was unemployed and depressed and saw it as an unnecessary expense. But she believed in it, and me, so much that I was convinced to continue. All this time later and I am so glad I stuck with it. It’s just one small example of something I am thankful for in our relationship but it has meant an outlet for my writing, the occasional free bottle of booze, and something I am proud to have continued. I would not be half as happy as I am today without her and 2011 has particularly reinforced and strengthened our relationship.
I am thankful for friends and family who listen and talk and share and laugh and cry. Those of you who don’t realise what a strength you are, simply because you are just being you.
Look I don’t want this to turn all hippy-like and be all peace, love and all that jazz. I just want to say thanks. Thanks if you are reading this and you know that you and I have had a positive experience at any time. I am thankful for family, I am thankful for friends.
