Thankful

By Elizaveta Schrijver

11-26-2003

I am thankful for art, allowing me to escape this prison

I am thankful for friends, showing me I am not alone

I am thankful for work, supporting my habits

I am thankful for writing, giving me purpose

I am thankful for school, distracting me from the trials threatening to overtake me

I am thankful for family, understanding my eccentricities as something beautiful

I am thankful for myself, inventing new challenges to keep me happy

I am thankful for exercise, wearing me out so that I can sleep

I am thankful for television, keeping my husband busy so I can have some peace

I am thankful for men, entertaining me with their strange brains and stranger bodies

I am thankful for women, connecting me on another level to another consciousness

I am thankful for clothes, concealing my imperfections from the perfectionist world

I am thankful for books, reminding me there is more to this world than meets the eye

I am thankful for writers group, bringing me into a community of those like me

I am thankful for freedom, letting me write this without fear

I am thankful for my journal, accepting all that I write with love