This article originally appeared on Completed Thoughts.

To whoever or whatever is behind all of this, this life, I am grateful.

Thank you for all of the things I take for granted, for the gifts which I have become used to.

Thank you for occasionally catching me in the rain, so that I may be reminded of how incredibly fun it is.

Thank you for never letting me be fully content, so that I may forever seek to better myself and others.

Thank you for aches and pains, so that I may appreciate comfort and ease.

I am grateful for the vibrant colors of flower petals which make my eyes celebrate and rejoice.

Thank you for thwarting my attempts to get what I want, and then offering me something better down the road.

Thank you for all of the moments of magic, joy, excitement and serenity.

Thank you for the people who are so special that it hurts to be apart from them.

With all of my being, thank you for the countless hours of work, toil and struggle of those who came before me, allowing me to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Thank you for the ability to read, to enter into imagined lands of other minds and partake in the wisdom of geniuses.

Thank you for waking me up in the middle of the night so that I may feel my love's breath on the back of my neck.

Thank you for making life temporary, so that I may appreciate and value everything I have and am given.

I am grateful for the dreamers of the world, who give us a glimpse into the realities that we shall one day know.

Thank you for the twinkling lights in the night sky that leave me in awe of their magnificence and distance.

Thank you for one seed having the potential to create an infinite supply.

Thank you for the heat of the sun and the bone-chilling cold of a window pane in the deep winter.

With all of my heart, I am grateful for the floating clouds, which I shall never touch, but will always embrace me with their comforting shade.

Thank you for the sweet, innocent smile of babies, the glimmer of light in their eyes and the purity of their hearts.

Thank you for the moments which have become the bookmarks of my life.

Thank you for grass which reminds us of the meaning of abundance.

From the center of my being, I am grateful for the touch of my angel, magnetized and energized with love which can find its way to the depths of my soul.

Thank you for trees and plants which magically take in my carbon dioxide and return to me healthy oxygen.

Thank you for the hand of a baby, wrapping its fingers around my thumb.

Thank you for the minds from which all great inventions issued forth and were once but the seed of an idea.

I am deeply grateful for family, a bond for no other reason than you just happen to share blood or a name.

Thank you for the few moments of perfection, of peace, calmness and comforting serenity.

Thank you for smell and taste, protecting us, yet providing daily adventure and excitement.

Thank you for making me, on the scale of the cosmos, infinitely tiny, so that no problem could ever truly be considered big.

I am grateful for mistakes, problems and stumbles so that I may stay aware and never stop learning.

Thank you for the nourishing dew-kissed morning air, glistening in the sun, full of freshness.

Thank you for the enchanting scent of flowers, forever enticing me to breathe their fragrance in still deeper.

Thank you for the memories, thoughts and experiences which can never be taken from me.

To whatever or whoever may be behind all of this or even if this is all some mind-boggling accident or a dream, nevertheless, I am grateful.

Thank you for the mind which lives through all of this and experiences it.

Thank you for this life, it is so much more than I ever could have asked for.

Thank you for everything, I have no complaint whatsoever.