As my mental health improves thanks to therapy and personal effort, I have realised the importance of gratitude. When I was at lower points, I still had so much to be grateful for but chose to focus on the negative. This year, I promised myself I wasn’t going to do that anymore. I was going to choose to focus on the positive instead. And I have been doing just that.
Two things I’ve realised from this is that a lot of envy, jealousy, hate, comes from personal insecurity. The more I chose to love others and approach them with empathy, the less I felt negative emotions in myself. You don’t need to tear others down to feel good about yourself when you’re a happy and secure person. The other thing I’ve realised is that the more we practice gratitude, the more we’ll have to be grateful for. When we choose to be positive and loving towards others, that will find itself back to us too.
What I’m Grateful For Today
Today, I want to share my gratitude for an email I received from NetGalley. It’s been a while since my book was on there, I took it down once it was published as KU doesn’t allow for the Ebook to be on other platforms. But recently (some users take time to get to the book as they have a lot on their TBR list) I received some feedback from a user who is a librarian that absolutely made my day.
Knowing that somebody who is around books so much (and has probably read a lot of them) loved the book means the world to me. As a child, books were my safe space. No matter how I felt, books allowed me to have an escape where I could be okay. To be an adult and be able to write books that others can enjoy the same way is the most amazing thing in the world.
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