#practicing gratitude

These shifts are so rare, that I try to really appreciate them when they happen. I wish the higher ups would put more emphasis on reducing the nurse to patient ratios, instead of profits to pad their own pockets....because these shifts would no longer be a rarity, but the norm. Overall satisfaction scores would improve, not just for patients but nurses too.

I am glad to have an endless supply of books, I am glad for libraries, I am simply glad for books!

i hope your day shines brighter tomorrow 🩷

i developed this little idea/way to live called “small joys” where you basically just pick one upcoming thing, a very small thing within the day or the hour, to look forward too. anxiety’s been a bitch lately and i think it’s contributing to my existential dread and how i feel absolutely purposeless and directionless because rn my life is an endless cycle. so i tried to start living by picking a “small joy” to look forward too when im feeling shitty about life. like a hot shower, or talking to a person i like, or hugging someone, or eating my pumpkin spice cheerios, or talking to my guinea pigs. really anything small. because if you are like me and tend to zoom out of the world and then start feeling like there’s no point in living anymore, then you need to start zooming IN. don’t look at the next 5 years, look at the next 5 hours. idk, it works for me. but the funny part is that my therapist asks me one day after i describe my zooming out issue and then my “small joys” strategy if i have ever tried practicing gratitude… turns out it’s almost exactly what i’ve been doing on my own to cope with life 😭 not exactly but very close

“it’s about the journey.”