AZURA
Gratitude isn’t something that comes to you. Gratitude is something you find in situations you have lived through and still are living by. It isn’t a sudden revelation of being thankful. It is finding the thing, like a needle in a haystack, and appreciating it. Because when everything crumbles, it is that found needle that makes you strong enough to break through the gravitational pull of life’s downside.
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A week or so had passed by since our little interaction. Specifically, the last I had ignored my sense of seeing. Mason was still living with us, and fortunately, some of his mental stress was taking a break. We hadn't let him see his parents yet, because for all we knew, seeing them would once again put him in the same position as before.
I still couldn’t let go of the ho
