Riding Shotgun

May 2

Was there a time you dreamed of the things you have now?

Objects that once occupied a corner of your mind, now leaning in a corner of your house, likely thought about a whole lot less than before you had them?

A partner you love? Friend group you cherish? Siblings or children or spouses you once yearned for and now have?

It’s easy and right to think about being more grateful—because gratitude seems to know no limits or boundaries—but you have to be grateful for more than just the thing you got, because that’s less than half the picture.

Could you also be grateful for the kid who was a dreamer? The child from a broken home who refused to be anything less than a romantic? The boy who so dearly loved an inanimate object that he infused it with life, brought something dead into life in the form of a dream? The girl who kept at it, learning at all costs on the hope the career would be worth it?

The person who thought wearing a cowboy hat everywhere was a good idea?

Maybe todays the day to invite that kid along for a ride?

Show them that—whatever it was—you made it?

And if you haven’t made it, well, the honking outside might be your future self, inviting you to ride shotgun.

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