2022

It comes unannounced.

You are sitting a slight distance away from your wife and your son.

She’s talking about her day, some experience in the crowd, while your toddler is trying his best to squeeze out the juice from a 200ml pack and ruin his clothes and the floor...and suddenly, it washes over you.

It comes in the form of an artist you just discovered, in the last two minutes of a TV series you just finished watching, a song that touched something inside that zombie heart of yours.

It comes unannounced when you talk to an old friend who casually reminds you how far you have come…how far.

You wonder how all the billion moments you have lived have contributed to this very moment, that despite everything, yes, every damn thing that life threw at you, you are sitting here, on the sofa, listening to your wife talking about her day while your son is trying to squeeze the juice out of a 200ml pack and ruin his clothes.

You wonder, you smile a faint smile, and you say a silent thanks.

Gratitude.