Admittedly, it was harder for me to locate gratitude today.  I’m in a bad mood.  I woke up sore from pushing it yesterday with my class (teaching) and work load, and driving in the rain here is definitely fear inducing.  I had to dig deep to find something to be grateful for because I was definitely not in the mindset.

That said, today I’m grateful for perspective.  This disease does a lot of things that piss me off and remove me from my natural peer group of twenty-somethings, but as a positive consequence of this illness I am able to understand and empathize with my elders.  Beyond having empathy for physical constraints that scare me about aging, I don’t have the superman complex associated with most people my age.  I understand circumstances that force uncomfortable decisions.  I relate to not being fully free to take big risks.  Perpsective is bittersweet.  But I’m grateful for it.