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Cliché gratitude

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  High: I saw Moana 2! (it was lowkey mid though) Low: The amount of tests and quizzes I have to take this week… A couple of weeks ago, right before Thanksgiving break, we had Friendsgiving in my 2nd hour, colorguard. Although I ate lots of good food, that’s not very important. What’s more important is something more simple that actually caught my attention. That day, we all went in a circle and expressed what we were most grateful for. For the first time in my 17 years on Earth, I actually thought about this question. What am I actually grateful for? Obviously during Friendsgiving, I said something along the lines of, “friends, family, blah blah blah.” But, since I’m a senior and also becoming an adult soon, there’s a lot more I realized I’m grateful for that I have mostly taken for granted much of my life. I’m grateful that my biggest problem today was whether I should make myself a second cup of coffee or just reheat the cup of coffee I’ve been sipping for the past hour. I’m gra...