that I am being offered
a job, but it is not with
the company I wanted most
and the salary is nearly half.
The external look-at-the-brightside
douchey, Instagram era
tells me to be happy,
to be grateful, however
I can't help but be bummed.
It's like when you were a kid
and got a birthday present,
but it isn't the exact item
you asked for, so now you
have the guilt of not loving it while being let down.
I am in the mood
to verbally accost someone
who uses #Blessed,
because gratitude has a dark side,
and it is exemplified by simply surviving.
Sure, in a catastrophic event
where people die,
those who live are allowed to be grateful,
but people still died
and their loved ones are not thanking anyone or anything.
my health, and so on,
but I’ll be honest,
I can feel grateful about those things
and STILL feel unhappy and/or overwhelmed occasionally.