One for All

"..she is willing to try anything that affords you the opportunity to shake up the Etch A Sketch of everything you suppose is true, a chance to question all your secret opinions: that this thing is good, that one is bad; that this person is better, that one is worse. I truly - or at least sort of - believe that we are all family, created of the same stuff, and that what is true for one of us is true for most of us." - Anne Lamott

I love that quote! Both for the use of the Etch a Sketch and for the general theme. I do believe we are all family, created of the same stuff. And it's easy to think that I'm different, I'm unique. And I am; but I'm no more unique or different than anyone else.

That helps me when I'm feeling very "poor me". It's easy to feel overwhelmed by my individual trials and have a pity party. But everyone has trials, some are easier than mine and most are harder than mine. Really, I have a pretty spectacular life, even the parts I don't like.

And what I need might be what we all need (although I don't assume to know what anyone else needs). I need faith. Faith in myself, faith in mankind, faith in the Divine. I need gratitude. Gratitude for this life, gratitude for the gifts I've received and gratitude for today.