Ways in which I'm lucky (30th birthday edition)

• Log per day - 2026
• It’s my 30th birthday today 😎
• I really like this tweet from Brent, and it has really stuck with me
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• To me, gratitude practice has often felt some what cheesy and effortful, and also contingent, whereas “I am lucky” feels more like a permanent state
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• That’ll do for preamble

Ways in which I’m lucky today

1. I’m lucky to have the ~skill to be able to notice just now that I was feeling grumpy, to slow down and investigate why, to realise that I was feeling rushed and harried, and to slow down and drop that feeling. To unclench
   • Reminds me of this: this used to be me, and is no longer me!
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2. I’m lucky to have a girlfriend who got me really sweet and thoughtful gifts for my bday
3. I’m lucky to have a girlfriend who made me a card for my bday!
4. I’m lucky to have a girlfriend!
5. I’m lucky to have the parents who I have
6. I’m lucky to have my family
7. I’m lucky to have friends who remembered my birthday
8. I’m lucky to not have a fully time job
9. I’m lucky to have too many friends and family members to message
10. I’m lucky to be young, injury free and healthy

Meh

• honestly, explicating it like this in writing feels cheesy and performative and somehow collapses the profundity
• It’s very different to sit in/recognise luckiness in a ~phenomenological/ontological way, than it is to sit and write it down
• Maybe something something left-hemisphere vs right-hemisphere