Grateful

It's been months since I've been on here; to be completely honest, I haven't felt like I had anything profound to say, so why talk just to talk? 

Recently, I've realized something that is completely unrelated to Crossfit (to some of us though, everything is related to crossfit). I woke up this morning to texts and phone calls from 4 people I love and thought back to a year ago, even two years ago and where those relationships have come from and how much they've grown. I immediately felt eternally grateful. We spend a significant amount of our life at work, trying to make money to get the things we want aka the new bedroom set I bought last week, the new pair of shoes I was dying to have, the vacation I needed to take....but would those things and money really ever satisfy me? Yes, maybe I felt good looking at a new bed to sleep in or slipping on those new shoes, but this morning waking up to love-that's a feeling that cannot even compare. 

Feeling loved and loving people is so much more rewarding than most of us realize, until we need it the most, until those moments where the last thing we feel like we have is love and then it just smacks us in the face. This is sometimes romantic love, love from friends or family members and even self love-but when it comes down to it, there's really no amount of money, no workout (well maybe ha!), no material item that can consistently fulfill you more than the love you have for others, the love they return and the love you have for yourself. 

this post dedicated to papa bear, the ninja, kate and jo <3

P.S. I'm back