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72 Things To Be Thankful For Today

Count your blessings, literally.

Tristen Coffee

Oct 11, 2016

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Take a look around. You have an insane amount of things to be grateful for on any given day. Here is a short list of some of them in no particular order, but I encourage you to think of your own, especially when you catch yourself starting to take these undeserved blessings for granted.

1. Internet at your fingertips

2. Bad days, otherwise how would you know what a good day was?

3. Easily accessible food

4. Air conditioning

5. Medicine

6. The fact that you can see pictures of the most breathtaking places on earth, even if you cannot yet travel there

7. The ability to quickly communicate with each other in multiple ways

8. Functioning showers

9. Friends that are super different than you

10. The opportunity to get an education

11. Your alarm clock

12. Chick-fil-A

13. Roommates (the wonderful and the awful)

14. Transportation

15. Freedom of speech

16. Tears; they are cathartic and speak when words don't suffice

17. Southern hospitality

18. The fact that there is always something new to be learned

19. Filtered water

20. Handwriting and its uniqueness

21. Law enforcement

22. The ability to vote

23. Toilet paper

24. Bluebonnets (@Texascitizens)

25. The kindness of strangers

26. The fact that you have enough downtime to be reading this article right now

27. Brunch, gotta love it

28. Leaves changing in the fall and the sides of interstate lined with flowers in the spring

29. Religious freedom

30. Skype and Facetime

31. Dishwashers

32. The ability to more or less control elements of your appearance (make-up, hair dye, exercise)

33. Music

34. The military

35. Online shopping

36. Your passion, whatever that may be

37. Stop lights

38. Deodorant

39. Forgiveness, giving and receiving

40. The fact that you don't have to churn your own butter

41. Your bed

42. Plants that take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen

43. Dog videos

44. Indoor plumbing

45. Globalization and how it can effect world change

46. Washers/dryers

47. High camera quality

48. The fact that there is almost always a word to describe how you are feeling, even if you have to borrow it from a foreign language

49. Life hacks that make tasks just a little bit easier

50. Your go-to beverage (coffee, sweet tea, etc.)

51. Doubt that makes you engage more deeply with what you believe

52. Pretty flowers

53. Spotify

54. All of the DIY projects made possible by Pinterest

55. Unprecedented cultural diversity in a single country

56. Nostalgic smells

57. Extracurricular opportunities

58. Good hair days

59. Stained glass windows

60. The times that someone has seen something in you that you didn't see in yourself

61. Your health

62. RetailMeNot

63. The fact that you have the resources to learn how our country came to be

64. Freedom of the press

65. Instagram filters

66. The accessibility of God's word

67. Sunsets

68. The 23,768 Starbucks stores in existence

69. Toothpaste

70. Anything free

71. The fact that you woke up this morning.

72. God's consistency and omnipresence. Even if all of the things on this list were to vanish, God wouldn't.

This life is good, do yourself a favor and don't forget that.

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The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

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