I’ve mentioned before, somewhere on this blog, that I sometimes try to write gratitude lists. I’ve been doing this off and on for years.
You know, 4 or 5 things I’ve been grateful for at the end of the day. Most often – at the end of a bad day. In an attempt to divert my thoughts away from all the bad stuff.  The only problem with this is – when the bad days are so regular you can run out of things to write. Or just keep writing the same things on the list. And it becomes boring. Like a chore even.
This isn’t because there is nothing at all to be grateful for, or nothing new. But when exhausted and the brain fog is bad it can be too hard to think – even of nice things.

On Twitter recently I read a piece about somebody who published a book about gratitude. Seemingly the person took a photo of something she was grateful for every day of the year – all 365 days.
I didn’t manage to read the whole article as my brain fog can make reading and concentrating difficult much of the time. And actually remembering the details of what I have read. (A massive frustration . . . )
But I don’t think the author had intended it to become a book. It was just something she wanted to do. And she enjoyed doing it. And if I remember right (and it is a big IF) the author suffered from depression. But doing this helped her enormously.
Then I read a bit from an ME/CFS sufferer’s blog.
Louise from http://www.getupandgoguru.com
(Oh dear, just the title of that blog makes me feel quite weak – sorry Louise !)
Anyway she had set herself a challenge to do this too, ie. take a photo of something every day and publish it. To her blog or other social media.
And she did it.  She called it #365Gratefuls or something similar.
Very well done Louise !!

Now there’s no way I’m going to say I will do this every day of the year. I would just be setting myself up for failure.

But I did find this interesting. Anything that has helped people’s health has got to be worthwhile.
And the idea of a photo I like as it sounds simple. And a move away from trying to think. And its not too energetic.

So I will start adding photos to this blog of things I am/was grateful for.
They will just be very random, not in any order of importance, etc.  Just whatever I happen think of. Ideally without much thinking at all . . . .
And they may well be very boring to people, as will probably be indoor things for a while.

Starting soon.
Maybe even later today if I can.  But I am very drained and headachey after just writing this post.
But soon . . .

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