Thoughts from the past and present: Let them know they’re loved

There's a lot of things we take for granted. Wonderful people, places, experiences and opportunities we have and love can start feeling like just an routine part of life when we engage with them as part of a routine. It can be easy to forget just how special they are until something reminds us. I'm just as guilty of this as anybody else. Everybody tries to be grateful all the time, but how many of us can really say that we are all the time? Maybe it's not possible, or at least very difficult, to constantly maintain a state of extraordinary gratitude for the ordinary things when they're ordinary to us. That's why when something reminds us, we have to seize the opportunity to reflect. For me,