The work boots by the door paid for the sneakers you complain about. Look at both.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
There is a chain between somebody’s labor and your stuff, and it is usually short enough to see. The boots at the door went to a site at six in the morning so that money existed for shoes you now consider insufficient. Nobody says this to shame you, because wanting things is normal at your age. Seeing the chain is just the difference between a kid and an adult.
Look at both pairs this week. Say something to whoever owns the boots, and consider going one more season on what you have.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Whose work paid for something you have complained about?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- Cooking with someone is presence with a job attached. You can’t scroll and chop onions at the same time.
- A train horn heard from your bed at night is a sound you’ll go looking for years later.
- Scraping frost off a windshield at dawn, look up for a second. The whole street is sparkling and nobody else noticed.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.