Today I'm thankful for what I have learned through hardship.
I'm thankful that I know not to trust someone based on their words or even their actions when everything is going the way they want. I can only trust someone based on watching them on a hard day.
I'm thankful that sometimes parents don't love their kids, but it doesn't matter because nobody's worth is truly defined by whether or not their parents love them.
I'm thankful to have seen people easily deceived or deeply in denial because it's forced me to check myself and ask how many times I've done that.
I'm thankful that I got really good at failing and mastered it because now I can move on to learning how to succeed and master that.
I'm thankful to know that there's lots of company at the bottom, that sloughs itself off as you climb out of a pit, via jealousy or self-conviction or a mentality of "misery loves company." Quality company comes from people who know where you've been or at the very least see you as capable of more and believe in you. They're not threatened by you improving yourself and they want to see you win.
I'm thankful that addiction is genetic and I've tried almost every drug imaginable but by the grace of God I'm not grappling an addiction.
I'm thankful that adulthood brought clarity that I was sold a lot of lies as a kid. Being depressed isn't cool, romance won't save you from yourself, your worth isn't wrapped up in how many people want to bang you and life gets way easier as soon as you stop trying to get everyone to like you.
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