Could you tell me a time you felt grateful?

There was a time when I played my dream sport, with my dream team and surrounded by all my friends. Then one day I got a terrible injury and my whole life got turned upside down. Everything I felt I had worked for throughout my life at school and as a young adult had slipped away. I could no longer go out and enjoy everything I felt I was or had been. It felt like I had lost my identity.

However, the old saying is that every cloud has a silver lining, and the silver lining for me was that I learned, after my accident to really appreciate life. To really appreciate being able to get out of bed in the morning without passing out of feeling ill. To appreciate being able go out and spend time with my friends instead of being shut in a hospital. To appreciate having the freedom of getting in my car and driving instead of having to get help to do so.

So, although this injury took so much away from me. It also gave me so much. And although it’s not the way I chose to end playing my sport, it probably taught me just as much, if not more about life and how to be grateful for everything in it.