#thankfulnovember
There has been a trend taking shape over the last few years on social media of people posting for the entire month of November what they are thankful for. They post something new every single day that they are thankful for. I started participating the first year I found out about it but as often happens, it slowly fizzled out after about a week. Life got busy, things came up and I found myself forgetting to do it. It became a task or chore and suddenly it was difficult to find something to post that I was thankful about that sounded both wise and sentimental. My human nature took over and as ashamed as I am to admit, I felt like I had to compete with people to have the best "thankful" post. So I stopped posting. I think it's great that people are taking time to stop and think about what they are thankful for but should it really be limited to only one month a year? I've grown and changed a lot since turning 40 and the biggest thing I have learned is to stop wanting ...