Being grateful for the smallest things

A few days ago I was at my local Whole Foods for lunch...and by lunch I mean eating samples and playing free video games. Nothing new or different about this. I've done this pretty much every day since the store opened last month.

I was walking around the store when I saw a woman wearing a sweater that had one word written across her chest..Gratitude. My first thought was this would be a great picture for the next time I write about gratitude. My second thought was how can I get her picture without a long explanation and making the whole thing creepy.

It would have taken too long to explain about the blog and piece about gratitude. Then I realized a picture of her boobs with the word gratitude would be creepy...really creepy. Btw...here's a pro tip about creepiness, if the guy doing the creeping thinks it's creepy, then you KNOW it's creepy.

Sorry for digressing, but I decided to blow it off and head off to play some free Frogger. Old school. Besides, I had zero plans to write about gratitude anytime soon. But you never know when that subject will come up because it truly is everywhere.

Fast forward to this morning. Less than an hour ago. I'm again at Whole Foods for breakfast....and that means samples and Frogger. BTW, I'm not fooling anyone with this...every time I walk into Whole Foods means samples and Frogger. Phew..I feel better admitting this.

I'm standing at the Frogger machine when it dawned on me that two years ago, at this exact time, I was having surgery to remove Melanoma. Small amount of cancer. Small amount of surgery but still. I knew this day was coming because Facebook gives you anniversaries of everything....good or bad.

So I started thinking about how lucky I was that this was caught early and taken care of before it got worse. I also started thinking about how others weren't so lucky. I did some more thinking about how grateful I am that I could be here today playing a silly video game. Small things are the best!

Like I said earlier, I had no plans to write about this and yet five days later, here we are! Gratitude really is everywhere.

All that thinking messed up my game. I was on my way to getting the high score and suddenly I kept running into cars and snakes. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get another chance to get there...probably sooner than later. And for that I'm so grateful.

Here's the story I wrote two years ago today. I can't believe I wrote this and then went to the hospital.

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