Overdue Appreciation Post

I spend most of my time stressing over every. Little. Thing.

I repeat a lot of the things people do that bug me, looking for validation because I still don't know if I'm just ungrateful or if I have reason to feel as I do.

But I want to dedicate a little time to the good that the people in my life bring. Specifically the people I live with.

I care about them a lot. I do. I worry that sometimes I make people think otherwise, and that just breaks my heart! 💔 I hate making people hurt.

I sometimes still have reasonably good days with them. Days when they listen to me and don't get defensive so easily. I know life has been hard for years now, so I appreciate these days when they come.

They do little nice things like buy me food and offer to take me around town just to spend time with them. I appreciate that too. I really do! I wish I knew how to make it more known to them.

I also see the other things they do. They help with certain chores sometimes, they take care of background stressers, and they even drive me places sometimes so I don't have to. They have been there with me through thick and thin. They could have abandoned me many times, but they never did.

I know they are not perfect, and neither am I...

Things are not often ideal, but we still have stuck together for a long, long time. That is more than I can say about my own family. 🩷