Today I am thankful for; the flurries of snow falling outside the window, the opportunity to learn, warmth, friendly conversation, sleeping late (even if it did make me rush later on), high heeled shoes, coffee and whatever else may come throughout the day.

This is something that I do in my journal most evenings. I make a point to do this on those bad days, when nothing seems to be going right and you just want to curl up and disappear. Those are the best days for thankfulness and reflection.
I started doing this after I left home for a year, and made sure to keep it up as that year asked me to deal with my own, and help others with self-esteem issues, heartbreak, depression, poverty, and injustice. I spent every day dealing with issues (some that I owned, and some that others did) that I was not always equipped to deal with.
What person, at 18, is equipped to coping with an entire country in poverty? Or 10 teenagers all spilling out thier hopes and insecurities, all looking to you for advice?

I started this without a direction, as a coping method, and found out in reading later on that year...that is a recommended technique for improving confidence, self-esteem and attitude. When you force yourself to think of something good that happened, the bad things no longer seem so huge.

So today, I am thankful for these things and I am very much aware that some things are not going well today ... but there is a debit for every credit, there is an up for every down, and there is a positive for every negative.
Every day can be a good day...we just have to let it be.