As I turn 27 today, I sit and ponder.
I ponder about the things I have gained this past year. The things I’ve lost.
The things I am most grateful for.
The relationships and mistakes I have made.
I am grateful.
For a conversation with a dear friend.
For a stranger that I don’t know that waves at me when we both jog on opposite sides of the pavement.
For a good walk with music in my ears.
For a good book on my way to work, in my home, or in a coffee shop.
I am grateful for the ability to speak, memorize, learn, and engage. For the ability to taste, smell, touch, and feel.
I am grateful for all the things I have, for the things I don’t, and for the things I will.
I am grateful for growth.
Immaturity and maturity.
Fastness and slowness.
I am incredibly grateful for youthful stupidity and circumstances that taught me a lesson.
Most importantly I am grateful for my family. My friends. The people I already knew, the people I got to know this past year, and the people I’ll get to know during this year.
I am grateful, for the hardships and for having people to help me push through them.
I am grateful for exercise, photography, writing, and many other endeavors that I have the luck and will to try out.
They keep me sane and allow me to develop and express who I am.
I am grateful for those who by choice, are not in my life anymore. I find it hard but I try to be grateful for not having the people I wish I did
(referring to the people who are not here not by choice).
I am grateful for all the birthday wishes.
I am grateful for another day.
And another chance to.
Pierce the sky.
Reach where I can’t. Or seemingly can’t.
I am grateful for the ability and the chance to play this game of life.
I am grateful for more things than I could ever list here.
And I’ll be, forever.
Thank you all.
27,
Here we go.
P.S.: I am also grateful for remembering to change the initial “I’m” to “I am” because it was incorrect. I am also grateful for the person who kept pointing this out to me when I first started writing.
Marios