This year is different. 

I'm currently writing this in my friends living room, all but comatose from a complete Thanksgiving dinner. Amanda and Brianna are sisters and they're the only friends from high school I still consider myself close to. They invited me over for Thanksgiving weekend when they found out I had nowhere else to go and I was happy to accept. I've known them longer than I've known myself and they feel like family as much as my parents and sister do.

That's the first thing I'm grateful for this year. The people you choose to consider family. I love my parents and sister very much but there's something distinct and special about the people you choose and then grow to love. They're here for me and I'm here for them for no reason other than we love each other. I'm thankful for that. 

The other thing I find myself particularly thankful for this year is opportunity. I'm at a point in my life where I feel so full of potential it's brimming over into multiple side projects like this blog and my YouTube channel. My biggest passion is history and my fantasy is to work as a historical interpreter but I'm thankful that I have the energy and the chance to explore these creative endeavors. I don't know that anyone will be as invested in this blog as I am and I don't know that I'll ever get to 2,000 YouTube subscribers (or even to 100,000 subscribers, which is my ultimate goal). But I do know that I'm grateful that I have the chance to try. And I'm grateful that I love it enough to try even if no one else cares. 

xoxo,
Sangeeta