This may well just die a death, but I thought I'd give it a go.

I don't know about anyone else, but to me the world feels pretty shitty right now. Now, in my case, to some degree that's always been the case. For a bunch of reasons I have developed over the years a keen ability to spot potential dangers and Bad Stuff and highlight them in my brain to a possibly disproportionate degree. This alertness to misery begets, well, more alertness to misery.

The net result of which is that I often fail to notice the good things in my life.

One exercise often used by counsellors, psychologists and the like with people like me is to encourage them to try and actively identify things for which they are grateful in their day.  There's lots of evidence that doing this makes you more and more able to identify things that are going well in your life, and, well, make you a bit happier.

So I thought I'd try, and I thought I'd see if I could drag some of you along into it as well.

So the aim of this thread is simple.  Every day you need to identify 3 good things that have happened, that you might feel grateful for.

I'll stress these don't need to be huge, at all. It can be, "the dog wagged his tail at me" or "I noticed the light looked good in the trees" or even "I somehow managed to get out of bed this morning". It doesn't matter, it just needs to be something that, in retrospect, you're grateful for, or which brought you even the tiniest sliver of happiness.

This thread isn't about smugly showing how great our lives are, it's just a record that things may not suck quite as massively as we sometimes imagine.

So, that's it.  Three good things every day. (If it ends up being just me, I'll probably quietly go away and do it on my own...)

I'll start...

1) I've had the day off, so I took the dog for an epic walk.  It was cold, but just the right kind of cold - you could feel the air in your lungs, and it made me feel alive.
2). I finished reading Paul Rainey's "Why Don't You Love Me?" (see the comics thread) which, ironically, I loved. It ends perfectly.
3). This.  I don't get to visit the B&B as much as I'd like these days.  (It's blocked at work for starters, and, well, life is frantic). So it's nice to have found time to pop in, and add something for a change.