I have a charmed life. I get paid to do something that I love. I am paid well enough to afford the rent, the car, enough food, and still have money left over for a few nice things, like cons and art and dinner out and a nice (if older) computer and other things that make life comfortable. I have the best husbear ever. I have furry friends I see fairly regularly. I have an audience for my music. I have my health.

Sometimes, it's very easy to forget that. Sometimes I think "why don't I earn more?" or "why isn't this going my way?" or "why can't I have what so-and-so has?" or "why does that person get to do that thing when I don't?" or... you get the idea.

It's then that I have to take a step back and think about the people I know - the wonderful, amazing people I know - who don't have what I have. The people who work at jobs they detest just to make a living. The people who don't have the circle of support that gets them through the year, waiting for that one con they CAN afford, where all is right with the world for most of a week. The people who give and give everything they have of themselves and get comparatively little in return. And it's then that I feel a bit ashamed for wanting more.

So I'm taking this moment to be grateful for everything I have, and to put out there in the universe that I hope to never take all that I have for granted, and that I hope I can raise up others along my path.

Thank you, universe. And especially, thank YOU, person who read this. Thank you for making my life better. :)