I was thinking about how truly thankful I am to have the Internet and be a blogger today. We often get caught up in our lives as well as in blogging itself. We get burned out and we often forget just how great it is to have this incredible medium. Last year, I wrote a lot about this very subject and am purposefully reminding myself how great life is, even if it’s not going well – or even better, how great it is to be alive.

I am a science and nature lover and have always been fascinated with the very idea and how spectacular it is to simply be alive. I often write about depression and what I’ve gone through. Every article I write about that subject, it is my hope that someone out there will benefit from it and I can get to know them. Today, I’m taking a new path and not talking about depression. Instead, I’m talking about appreciation and thankfulness of how great it is to be alive right this very moment…alive.

The Awesome Earth

The Awesome Earth

Aside from all the corruption, hatred, wars, racism, egotism, misery, pain, death, loss, heartlessness, greed, crooked politicians, doom and gloom, the end of the world and all that negative bullshit that we all experience – there is one fantastic reason to be thankful and beaming with joy: you are alive and breathing. This is absolutely true, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. Dead people cannot read. Beneath the endless layers of existence, the beauty of being alive is one idea we can agree upon.

The very idea that we somehow live on this glorious blue sphere floating on the fabric of space/time somewhere in a vastly expanding universe is stupendous, majestic, beautiful and incredible. There really are no words good enough to describe how phenomenal it is to be alive.

We worry about how we look, what kind of car we have, how much money we make, what school we go to, what food we like, if we are ugly or pretty, fat or thin and a multitudinous array of meaningless nonsense – all those things that truly don’t matter. We often fill our lives with these superficial ideals all the while we should be freaking amazed to be here. I could be starving to death in a barren desert, dying of thirst and I will still be thankful to be alive for as long as I am alive.

I have only one blogging tip: Get to know your readers and become their friends. I mean really get to know them. It can be cumbersome as you have more and more, but there are some fantastic people out there. Really, the only reason I have this blog is to have worldwide friends. It’s impossible to be close to everyone, but I try my best to get to know them. Sometimes I feel guilty that I don’t have enough time to spend here, but I am appreciative of every person I meet.

I do not see the world through rose colored glasses, but I do choose to be extremely vibrant about life and what it truly means to be here. We can ponder the deepest of philosophies, but no meaning is greater than knowing how great it is to be alive. Have you thought about that lately? In the simplest way possible, I just had to share this fantastic feeling I have with all of you. If we all thought about life in this way, the world would be a better place.

*The Earth pic is one of my favorites, but I have no idea were it originated from. It’s been in my files for 10 years. Those clouds and shadows are spectacular.

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