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  • It is maddening to be reminded to appreciate what we have:

  • for someone to tell us we shouldn’t forget to be grateful.

  • It’s in conflict with our times, and their emphasis on constant ambition and striving.

  • The idea of pausing to take stock of what has gone well, to be content with many things

  • as they are - this feels strange and dangerous, like some kind of a loser’s counsel - or

  • the consolation prize.

  • But in truth, there is so much that, if we learnt we might be dead by nightfall, we would

  • promptly remember to value:

  • the summer night sky

  • the taste of cold milk

  • old brick walls

  • deserted railway stations

  • the presence of our partners beside us in the stillness of dawn.

  • We are ungrateful partly out of a fear; a fear of accepting what we haveas if to

  • pause to appreciate things as they are might make ussoft’, complacent, without the

  • will-power to take on new challenges.

  • Anxiety feels so much more natural.

  • It’s been with us from the start.

  • But ultimately, it's not heroic or sensible always to be dissatisfied; relentlessly to

  • focus on everything that's gone wrong and to obsess about our humiliations and rejections.

  • There's in truth far more courage and skill in being able to identify a hopeful perspective:

  • in knowing how to train and keep our eyes on what’s been - more or less - OK.

  • What can best help us in this is - oddly - is the thought of our own death: how soon and how

  • unexpectedly it may come, and how much we'll miss about life when it does.

  • We are constantly undermined by our failure to retain the purity and drama of this helpfully

  • morbid insightwhich should strike us once every day at least

  • and to put it to powerful use in the ordinary course of life.

  • Gratitude is the dividend due to us when, for a few moments, we begin to assess our

  • lives with a truer sense of all our small but significant advantages - and with a frank,

  • humble recognition of all we have to lose - and one day will.

It is maddening to be reminded to appreciate what we have:

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