You fought over the bedroom light every night. Years later you’ll fight to get everyone home for a weekend.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Proximity makes people annoying, and it also makes them available. Sharing a room means constant small friction over nothing, and it means someone is always there. Later the friction goes and so does the availability, and you learn which one you were really getting. Calendars turn out to be harder to argue with than a sibling.
While everyone is still under one roof, take one ordinary thing and make it a habit instead of an accident. Walk to the store together, split a late snack, watch one bad show on purpose. Small and repeated beats big and planned, and it costs you nothing you will miss.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Who do you bicker with now but will later chase down?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- Somebody wrote their name in that used book years ago. You’re holding a piece of a stranger’s life. Be careful with it.
- A school bus driver steers a giant vehicle full of chaos and still says good morning. Respect that.
- Gratitude doesn’t fix the problem. It just stops the problem from being the only thing you see.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.