Hi. Kurzgesagt's gratitude journals can be found here: shop.kurzgesagt.org/ It is possibly the best $24 I've ever spent, but as I say in the video, you can also do this with just a pencil and paper. Also, in the interest of full disclosure, the shipping and fulfillment of the journals (in the U.S.) is done by dftba, a company I own part of, but I do not get any income from dftba; it all goes to charity. -John
Hi... My dearest author, John ... I'm Saddam Khan from a small village of India. I found your TH-cam channel few days ago. I want you to know that the first novel I read is 'Looking for Alaska'.*I'm grateful that you wrote that book*. I bought & read it when I was 21 years old in 2015 & I re-read it few days ago. I didn't read it earlier because partly when I was a teenager I couldn't read English very well as it's my 3rd language and partly because at that time I didn't had the luxury of spending money on books except the ones which I needed for study. Coming to the point when I saw the film 'the fault in our stars' I wanted to buy that book but somehow I opted for Looking for Alaska perhaps partly because it's your debut novel and partly because it's title and daisy flower cover attracted me. When I read it, I felt poignant . Although I never been in love I felt I'm falling in love with Alaska Young and when I reached to the point of her death it seemed that my own heart was shattered into thousand pieces. I wished that you kept her alive in the book because I loved that character very much. It's absurd but my first and only love is a fictional character of your book.
"I have a long history of buying journals and not writing in them because there's a difference between the person that I am and the person that I wish to be" I FELT THAT IN MY SOUUUL.
Most people probably don't know but the Vlogbrothers and especially the first episode Crash Course World History were the *direct* inspiration and reason I started Kurzgesagt seven years ago. Without your work John, which is just so genuine, Kurzgesagt would not exist and I'm so grateful to you for that. I'm grateful for all the times you helped me with advice and encouragement and kind words. I'm grateful for your friendship, even if you are thousands of miles away. Thank you John. - Philipp
I am grateful for the fact that John Green can get on camera looking like he just woke up after being kidnapped and dropped off with no wallet and no phone in the middle of nowhere and still kill it with his awareness and delivery in these videos.
@@melonlord1414 Is that an Nerdfighteria inside joke from back in the time when I hasn't been part of this awesome community, yet? Would you mind explaining the "'in your pants' test"?
Lone Starr hi 😊 yes it’s just where you take any book title and add “in your pants” at the end. I can’t actually remember where it came from though- I think maybe back when Paper Towns was coming out
Me too, but its nice to relate to someone I look up to, and understand that even those i regard as perfect don't see themselves that way, so perfection is not something I lack, its just un-attainable💜💜💜💜💜💜
Yes, so much of both things! I still remember the first time I consciously realized this fact, and how huge the chasm was between my imagined self and who I really was. There is still a big gap, but I'm grateful for everything that has allowed me to close the gap and get closer to who I want to be
This video has reminded me of a forgotten game I used to play with my mom when I was very little. Whenever either of us thanked the other for something the other would respond with "Thank you for thanking me", which led to the response "Thank you for thanking me for thanking you", which led to "Thank you for thanking me for thanking you for thanking me", etc until we couldn't keep track of it any longer. I'm grateful for my mom finding a fun way to teach me to be grateful for what I was given, and I'm grateful to you John for reminding me of that game I used to play with my mom.
I was once on an overnight flight, and I saw someone check the time, realize it was almost midnight, open a document, and write three things they were grateful for into it. I hope that guy is doing well. Also, I'm sorry for snooping. The light was bright.
"Somebody once asked, Could i spare some change for gas? I need to get myself away from this place. I said 'Yep, what a concept!' I could use a little fuel myself And we could All use a little changeeee!" -Mouth Smash
My family, instead of writing them down, says them every night at the dinner table. We used to do this just during the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving (switching to email/text when my brother and I went away for college). When I came back home to shelter in place, we decided to start doing it again out of season, and it’s definitely been a great idea. Not only does it help me see the things that are still wonderful in my life, but it also allows me to connect with the people I love over the things that are making us happy.
Your videos and recommendations have legitimately made quarantine a more bearable and fulfilling time. It makes me feel like maybe I’m not wasting the time I am given.
Could I ask you two questions, just as someone who already owns this journal? 1) how much time does this actually take? John says "a few minutes a day" but he is a writer and also, he makes youtube videos and podcasts. So he's used to formulating his thoughts in way that is short and concise but still complete (I know writing takes time, but you know what I mean). And 2) is it necessary to do this at the end of the day? Like, does the journal heavily encourage you to do this right before you go to bed or something? I have severe chronic pain so sitting up straight would be a huge task for me at the end of the day, but a significantly less huge task at the start of the day. It's one of the main reasons I keep failing at making gratitude journaling a habit. I was actually about to throw in the towel (if quarantine can't make this habit stick nothing can). This video though makes me feel like maybe.... one final try... if this journal is really that good... maybe.. Sorry for rambling ;)
@@reneedesoet7309 if i may answer, without being as awesome or having said journal. I'm just interested in habits and did psychology courses a little bit. 😸 So, if you're still interested: 1) Taking two minutes ✌️ for that might be enough to scribble down your thanks for previous hours/day of your life, just to be able to remember what was that about and to trigger 🔔 that warm feeling 🥰 while writing and on rereads. If issue is remembering what happened - you can jot down smaller things 📝 as you go through the day, to remember them once per day at your journal time, and to maybe word them a little better. But point is not quite in telling the story of your gratitude beautifully. Point is to notice and remember stories of gratitude, which are already beautiful, which are already happening to you - no matter how exactly you'll word them. Being a wordsmith may help, but that is never necessary in order to notice and remember good things. 2) Journal! Journal whenever it is comfortable to do for you, consistently day after day. 🗓️ Take a look at what you wrote before sleep though. And whenever else you'd like to feel better emotionally 😁 Act and habit of feeling gratitude and thinking of things we are grateful for - that's more important then how or when. Associating gratitude journaling with pain 🤕 is probably counter to what this journal is for. You'll feel less good and habit will be harder to form as well. Writing it after sleep💤 may alter what you remember - both ways. You'll forget some things, but also some things will be clearer in your mind, after connecting some dots while asleep. 🧠 So I wouldn't worry too much about that. And if you wish, you can do take small notes 📝during the day, or write more often than daily, or try to find a few minutes in the middle of the day. Taking a look before bed 🤓 is helpful for when you might feel bad and stressed after a full day 😞, your sleep might also get better if you fall asleep after feeling gratitude. It improves your emotional state after all 🥳 , which is the whole deal with that Journal. 📘 Hey, thank you for reading this. I feel useful. 😊
@@reneedesoet7309, first of all, I'm sorry to hear you have chronic pain. :( Personally, I spend no more than 5 minutes doing this. I don't write paragraphs, mostly lists and shorter phrases. And no, it doesn't have to be at the end of the day, it can be whenever you want. I write in it sometimes at night, and sometimes in the morning. I think just the fact that it forces you in to a new mindset is the idea. Hope that helps! :)
I spent most of my life thinking so-called “self help” stuff was a waste of time, until I developed anxiety and didn’t know how to cope with it. Mindfulness, yoga, and journaling have all been super useful in helping me appreciate my life and help me focus on what I can control rather than the things I can’t. And even though I forget more often than not, every time I am mindful, practice yoga, or journal I feel better and glad for doing so. I’m thankful this community is supportive and has helped me embrace what I used to think was pointless, but now recognize as incredibly helpful.
@@GrahamFraser It works for me! Helps me center my thoughts, focus on deep breathing, and often quells my anxious thoughts. I always say do whatever works best for you. But it's definitely worth a shot!
“There’s a huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I want to be” At this point the platonic ideal of myself is being confident enough to go to a restaurant alone
Can you explain that to me? It's really interesting. -I go to restaurants alone all the time.- Before the beer virus apocalypse, I went to restaurants alone all the time. It never seemed like a thing someone would have trouble with.
I was in a complete spiral last night, panic-inducing anxiety bomb that kept me up well into the night. I started writing in my journal all the things that made me scared or frustrated. I stopped and was ready to go to bed, still spinning, then got my journal out and thought, not until I've written down three things I'm grateful for. Once I did that, I felt so much better. I wasn't calm and zenlike and the problems of the world were still there, somewhere, but it took the edge off. It allowed me to finally lay down without pacing through the house for the 5th time to make sure all the doors and windows were locked. I recently went through my office, trying to clean, and found I also have an affinity for journals and notebooks. I have dozens, most with a few pages from days long past, some with nothing at all. Your comment about buying journals to bridge that divide between you and the person you want to be really hit home. I'm going to have to give this new journal a try. As always, thank you.
I am a single woman with a mental illness, no kids no pets no partners, in a city I moved to a year and a half ago... this lock down has been...scary. totally unrelated to the video, I just needed to scream into the cosmos. Thank you for letting me scream.
Scream as much as you need into the void, and even better, into this void here. It is a scary situation, and being alone makes it definitely harder... I can only try to imagine how it must be to you, I don't have a mental illness (and I'm male, so that is already two privileges), but I understand how it is to move to a new place and still not be "at home" there... I've been living in a different country for 3 years, luckily I have had the time to make friends and feel good and safe here, but it takes time and work. But one unexpected consequence from the current lock down is that I've been talking (video calling) more often and I'm feeling closer to with my friends from my hometown. Everyone is meeting online anyway, it doesn't matter so much anymore if you live 2km or 10000km away... And that has been helping me! I hope you can do the same with friends and family, that are physically far away :)
Yes, we definitely hear you: May you feel the blessings we are sending your way; may your heart feel the love and warmth we want to give you at this moment; may you be peaceful and relieved after screaming so loudly; may you always remember that you can be physically removed from people but never alone.
Today was a difficult day to be grateful for things. Not even an hour after I got up, I heard a story on NPR about a maternity ward being attacked and mothers and children murdered. How can I go around being grateful that I'm still employed or that I can build a greenhouse with the family or that the internet has brought me your wonderfully insightful videos while there's so much darkness and evil assailing us on every side? How does hope thrive in this condition? One person alone is incapable of fighting and I do not have faith that enough people can unite long enough or with enough strength of will to uplift the human condition above this utter madness. That being said, John I am very grateful for your existence and your continued fight to decrease worldsuck. You are a beacon.
Growing up, my parents would make my sister and I say "thanks" before dinner. It was a sort of a modified version of grace, which they grew up with, but we weren't thanking God, we were just thankful. I now live very far away from my parents and I don't usually share dinner with anyone, but now again I will say "thanks". Just to remind myself that life ain't so bad.
my english teacher before quarantine had us announce “good things” before class started, and it really changed how I thought about some things. It helped to hear what kinds of things other people see as good, and it felt good to announce my own good things to the class. i’m very grateful for this teacher :)
❤️ at several points in my life I've done gratitude journals of varying degrees. I'm currently living at home with my parents (which I haven't done outside of holidays for several years) and found one that I had used for about two months in 2014. I decided to start it back up, since I'm in the middle of a pandemic-induced period of bad mental health. So every day since April 7 I've written just one thing every day that was good. Only one thing, because it really only takes one good thing (and sometimes even one is a stretch). It's been shockingly difficult on some days, but I'm being strict with myself to come up with something every day, no matter how small or mundane. Even "washed my face before bed" can count, if that's the only good thing I can think of that day. It's not always easy, but I'm doing it.
Yes, yes, yes. Just this morning I was feeling particularly low and I searched for "how to stay positive." Gratitude journals were mentioned in most of the articles in my search results. I had heard of them before, but I never really took them seriously until now. I'm grateful for good coffee, and the job that I still have that allows me to buy it, and sunshine and fresh air and the ability to walk around in it. I'm grateful for music and my ability to listen to it and to make it. I'm so grateful for my family and friends and everyone out there in Internetville who I'm lucky enough to communicate with every day. Stay as healthy, safe, and sane as you can, everybody!
"There's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be and I continue to believe despite all evidence that making some purchase will help me bridge this divide and it never does." Same.
John, thank you. Thank you again and again. I've watched you and Hank for a number of years since the early 2010s. I've loved all that y'all have accomplished with people over the years and together. And thank you for recommending this gratitude journal. I also have a hard time actually completing gratitude journals and I love this channel that made it (I can never spell their name correctly, even though it is beautiful) And I don't have the money to buy it rn. I'm a senior in college at UT Austin in Communication and Leadership with a minor in Journalism with student loans among other things. So I hope to buy it one day and until then just write and reflect what I'm grateful for each and every single day❤
I am very grateful for my teachers, as I would not be the person I am today without them. I’m grateful for my mother, for supporting me through this time even though my mental health hasn’t been grateful. I’m grateful for nature, and how it is seemingly unchanged by this. I’m grateful for music, as it is holding me together through this. I’m grateful for all the people that inspire me, and for all the people that inspired them. And of course, I’m very thankful for Hank and John, for their honesty and wisdom that brings many comfort in an uncertain world.
"There's this huge difference between the person I am and the person I wish to be." - John, I think that should ALWAYS be true. Because you should ALWAYS be trying to be a better version of you. There is no end to that self improvement. No one ever achieves a perfect state. You never finish. Ever.
"There's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be" -John Green, bestselling author, famous educator, and noted philanthropist. I know most people see in themselves room for improvement, and that is good and healthy, but it's still funny to hear someone who most people would aspire to be like say something like that.
Growing up, my parents introduced a nightly routine at dinner called 'What Made you Smile' - They saw it as a way to draw out the kids to talk about their day when they would otherwise be reticent or sullen, but also it made us realize there was always something to smile about even if it was just that the day was nearing an end.
I wish I was a person that journals everyday, I’ve learned that I am not. I’ve had one journal for the past 4 years or so that I’m just now finishing because I decided to only write in it when I feel I need/want to. Thanks for this video John, it will be helpful to try and thank about what I am grateful for when I’m going through bad mental health days.
It's almost like Esther day, but instead of a celebration to vocalize the love we have for the people and things we don't usually express our love toward, it's gratitude. In addition to Esther day, Nerdfighteria should also have a holiday in which we celebrate and vocalize the gratitude we have for the people and things we don't usually express our gratitude toward. On this note, I am extremely grateful for the sincerity and silliness in Vlogbrothers' videos and how they always make my day. Thanks.
Amen. When I describe Vlogbrothers and their projects I inevitably use the phrase "silliness and sincerity in equal measure" because I just haven't found anything more accurate than that!
Most Americans, a few months ago: panic buying and hording toilet paper John, a few months ago: buying and starting a gratitude journal 😊 For real though, great video as always! I feel inspired to start one of these now!
I've started journaling at the start of this pandemic to keep a sense of the passing of time now that days all start to blend together, but I haven't felt a lot of the positive effects from journaling that I've heard other people talk about - I just attributed it to the stress of life right now, but now I'm thinking that maybe it's the way I'm journaling that prevents it.. After seeing this video and thinking a bit about what I put in my journal - man, no wonder it doesn't make me feel any better if the stuff I write about is so negative. It actually makes a lot of sense that getting those negative things out of your system (which I was attempting to do with this) doesn't work as well as trying to focus on things that I can be grateful for and feel positive about - and that those 15 minutes of journaling each day are spent thinking about those things instead of pretty much reliving bad stuff. Thank you John, I'm definitely going to try to shift my journaling focus towards gratitude and positivity :) Really looking forward to writing in my journal all of a sudden xD
It's super powerful getting to choose what we remember. I look back for each date over the past five years and it fuels me so much. People would probably think different if they could see what they choose to focus on written down.
Starting today: I'm grateful for this reminder to be consciously grateful. I'm grateful for realizing I'm not the only one with amplified brain problems right now.
Just yesterday I was watching another Kurzgesagt video and I remembered the one about gratitude and how I watched it, felt moved by it, and added it to my rarely-used "Watch Again" playlist. I was thinking I needed to go and actually watch it again, and then today, this. A sign? I'm taking it as one. Thanks John, I'll see you next Tuesday.
I’ve kept a journal for the past 4 years of my life to vent and tell stories and document my life. However, I’ve found that in the pandemic and with my terrible mental health, I’ve become almost afraid of writing in it. I suppose it comes from a place of being scared of facing myself and facing the good in the world. It’s so much easier to succumb to my fears and worries. I’ve been saying that I should write in it but I haven’t wanted to. Therefore, I haven’t wanted to feel better. Yet, this somehow made me want to do the thing I’ve always done when I feel pain, pick up my pencil and write. You’ve made me want to be grateful again John. For that, I must say thank you. I have no idea if I have the strength to do it but I want to try again.
Thank you so much - for this video in particular - and for all the work you and Hank do to decrease World Suck. I’m really struggling right now, alone at home while my husband recovers from a stroke. I gave up on the idea of journaling decades ago, but I think you have changed my mind about it. This seems like something that would benefit both of us, and I’m going to look into it further. 💝
@@LorrainePorcello So far so so good, unless you count my sanity because my two teenage girls are in an anime/K-pop year long phase and I'm home every second to tell every little thing to. Even this I'm finding a way to be grateful for (or trying) because they talk to me and share things they like.
I tried this before, and I ended up forcing myself to find something to be grateful about. It turned out making me hate myself for not being "thankful enough". I have trouble accepting my pain and allowing myself the time to be grieve. Basically the thought process was, "I shouldn't complain because I supposedly have it so good... yet here we are!" I guess my advice to people who think like me is this: A) Be thankful in the moment. Like John, I'm a big believer in letting those I'm grateful to, know that I am grateful to them. I (try to) make it a point to tell them that everytime I genuinely feel like it - which is fairly often. B) your pain is valid. Just because you could have broken your neck, doesn't mean your broken arm doesn't hurt. You're allowed to feel sad even if things are supposedly going ok. Just remember to ALSO keep your mind open to the beuaties of this world. The world is a great and terrible place - it is ours to experience all of it.
I feel the same about gratitude - I prefer to count things that make me happy. It's less complicated, somehow, and leaves space for the bad stuff too. It doesn't mean that I'm happy all the time but a reminder that there's almost always something good in every day. And if there isn't, it's within my power to try to put something in, a favourite food or calling someone I love, or wearing my favourite skirt. It doesn't work all the time, but it does work.
I watched the video John referenced and they mentioned writing in a gratitude journal 1-3 times per week. Maybe if you knew you didn’t have to do it everyday, it wouldn’t feel so forced? I totally relate to struggling to feel grateful sometimes!
I've been catching up on recent videos today, escaping to the comfort of Vlogbrothers after a very difficult day. This video felt like a hug from my grandma. When my grandma passed away 2 years ago, my dad was going through some of her things to write his speech for her funeral. He showed me her "joyful moments journal." I read the whole thing, desperately clinging onto what was left of my grandma. In her journal I found my name. A moment from years ago when we surprised her for her birthday. That week I went out and bought a joyful moments journal for myself. This video showed me a different way to use it though. I've only turned to my joyful moments journal when I was feeling especially joyful, but instead I should be looking for the things and moments that bring me joy and write them down daily. Thank you for this, John. And thank you, Green brothers, for being my comfort on a difficult day.
I do something similar: in my diary, I dedicate entries to my accomplishments I'm proud of. It's easy to forget how hard something was after you did it.
Dear John,This was one of the loveliest VlogBrothers videos in recent memory. I too adore journaling. Instead of writing huge paragraphs about what I’m grateful for, I keep a gratitude log in my bullet journal . It’s been helpful for my depression. I’m grateful for this channel and you and Hank and your books.
As an individual in a 12 step program, it brings me the good feels knowing that someone I respect as much as John sees the value in our principles, even if he doesn't know that's what he's doing. Gratitude lists, "the person that I am" vs "the person that I wish to be", and "one day at a time" are all valuable lessons I've learned in The Program and I'm thankful that people outside that community have ways of learning the tools I've found so helpful.
I am grateful that this came on my recommendation page and I watched a John green video after many weeks of avoiding a John green video because I thought his optimistic attitude would rankle my brain and all that it is going through. But I watched this and sighed and thought that maybe my brain isn't my enemy here and it too wants to be happy, it is just really hard sometimes.
Six years ago, I began daily journaling in my first moleskine notebook and I have not stopped since. Before this, I mostly video recorded and talked to a camera every now and then off and on. I yearn now to have started earlier in life. The thing is, a journal so much more clearly shows my feelings and relationship to life. I have a page for every day, even if I had to catch up a few pages after doing something worth writing about. It is life changing and I can see in my writing how my attention and thought got more honest and enjoyable and fun and thoughtful. It has fueled me so much looking back, and I've even inspired some people around me gratitude journal in ways these past years. It works and it's fun to see parallels and remember how people's love near and far has carried me for so long. I love the story I have told and how others have helped grow it. Thanks for all these reminders,, John. Now I'm off to journal. (Also, someone please comment soon because not a fan of being commenter 666!!!!)
I’m grateful to hear my dumb brain stuff be reflected by someone I admire to remind me that I’m not alone. I think a gratitude journal is a great idea. Hopefully it will turn the “others have it worse” self punishment on its head. I needed this video, thank you
Hey, John! I showed this video to my therapist and he told me today that he bought the book and read through it. He loved it so much that he ordered 20 more for his clients! Thanks for showing this to us!!!!!
I'm so grateful for nerdfighteria. So, nerdfighters, if you could: please be kind to yourselves. You're an important part of this community and I'm glad you're here. I know much of what you're experiencing right now, and much of what the world is experiencing right now is a lot. It's okay to struggle with that, it's okay to not be at your best. Be kind, and look after yourself. Hydration, food, meds, movement, rest, something necessary, something fun--whatever you can do on the self care fronts, do that. I'm hoping I get to be grateful for each of you for many years to come. Hey now, nerdfighteria. DFTBA!
That looks like a lovely little book. :) While I don't write down my gratitude, for years now I've been practicing a skill of appreciating when a moment is nice. When something is lovely, sit in that moment for a moment, and consciously tell yourself, "if this isn't nice, I don't know what is." It's really grounding, and is a fantastic chance to appreciate the tiny little pleasant moments that make up a life.
I kinda of unintentionally did something similar with the One Second A Day app on my phone. Because you want to have one second every single day, but not every day is interesting, you start finding little things to take videos of. I have videos of my coworkers talking, of my cat being silly, of light coming through the trees outside my apartment. But I also took videos of less good things, like a selfie video of me in the dentist with a toothache, which I also found therapeutic when I would rewatch later, cuz in the moment it SUPER SUCKED, but watching later it reminds me that "this too shall pass". It was more an exercise in living in the present when I'm so accustomed to dwelling on the past and freaking out about the future. I'm going to look into this journal though!
Thank you, as well, John. Because your videos make MY life a little better, even just being able to listen and know that other people are out there who care about the world and about - well everything. This has most certainly not been just any few months. So much has changed and so much is still changing. Sometimes I don't recognize my own family, now. I've learned more about how to argue well and kindly in the last two months than in my whole life, because I cannot escape debate anymore, I can't hide from politics and disagreement and conflict. I'm still terrified over it and spend a lot of time dealing with that. But I'm better at dealing with it. Better at standing up for myself. And some of that I learned here, some not. But I'm grateful nonetheless. These days it's not just don't forget to BE awesome. Don't forget - any of you! - that you have always BEEN awesome.
I honestly find that, no matter the subject matter, the most soothing podcast on my playlist. Just the way John talks about the subjects, it's beautiful.
I faithfully kept a gratitude journal for a year and a half, and it felt good. When I got married it threw off my routine, and I stopped. I recently started again, and some days I write a lot, some days I can barely think of one thing I am truly thankful for that day other than it's over. But as I start writing I think of more things I am thankful for from the day. It is the little things, like, "I am thankful my son gave me a hug when I felt sad." Or "I am thankful for peanut butter Oreos." Thanks for sharing John.
I'm so grateful at this moment for the access that we have. Sitting here at a whim I can look up and download a PDF of poet I like. Or maybe on a slow simmering day, I can play that game from my childhood and experience it anew. Grateful for all the innovation and technology of the 21st century. Thank you John :')
The idea that you have bought journals you did not write in makes me more comfortable with the idea that I might not be consistent in journaling, and that comfort - in turn - helps me journal without being sabotaged by my own fear that I will not complete the journal and thereby fail to accomplish some ethereal end that journaling has, and THEREBY demonstrate my own unworthiness. You’ve reminded me that I’m worthy by allowing me to relate to you, and that is beautiful.
Man... About 3 months ago, I had been writing in a journal consistently, everyday filling out a couple of pages. At the top of the pages, I would always write down a couple things I was grateful for that day. After years of doing this, documenting almost everything in the stacks of books I had filled, I stopped. It was right around when this whole Covid-19 mess started. I don’t understand why I stopped, but recently, it has been hard to start up again. I miss the companionship that a journal gave me. It allowed me to write down my true thoughts, while giving me peace and comfort that I relied on heavily to get through the day. Definitely a therapy. John, your words have inspired me to regain a part of my life that I had lost during quarantine. I’m going to write again! Thank you for your words of encouragement and love. Much appreciated.
I own SO MANY like "fill in specific answers" journals I've never written in... So many people would see this as a failure. I see this as a world of possibility I will eventually get to. Eventually... SO many. OH MY GOSH CAN WE HAVE A DFTBA VLOGBROTHER inspired JOURNAL type thingy?
Yes, I’d love to help by creating prompts based on videos and nerdfighter things!(: they could be things like “write a review of something in the world as if you are writing for the Anthropocene Reviewed.” or “What is one songs music video that you would do a frame by frame break down for, and why?”
Absolutely loved this one, John. I think a lot of us with mental health issues have been having a tough time these past few months. I've always appreciated your openness in talking about mental health and helping to take away some of the stigma for younger generations. Like you, I know I have a lot to be grateful for, but I have to admit that when things are spiraling out of control, it's easy to focus on other things (or to feel guilty for falling apart). Thank you for the reminder that actually taking time to look for, notice, and focus on the good things daily as an exercise can be such a helpful tool, even if I know I have tons to be grateful for. I'm grateful for this insight right now, along with so many others you've shared over the past decade or so. Profound thanks.
Thank you for this video! I’ve always been told when I had poor mental health to write gratitude lists to help. But if I thought about the good in my life then I’d be filled with incredible shame for the pain that I feel despite that good. But gratitude really isn’t a tool for comparison or harm. It’s just a way to focus on your the good and wonderful in your life and thank you for verbalizing that. I think that I will be able to really think about what I’m grateful for now.
I keep thinking that I must have a pretty good “normal” life to miss it so badly at the moment - so perversely, I’m grateful to be so sad at the moment because it means things were going well before! Don’t know if this makes any sense but I’ve found it to be a helpful frame for me.
This makes sense to me. I’ve experienced the same bittersweet feeling when moving to a new city. It’s painful but only because of the meaningful connections you’ve been lucky enough to make.
I started gratitude journalling a little under a month ago and while I sometimes still forget, it does allow me to focus more on the things I'm grateful for, the things I find beautiful, the things I find interesting, the things that went well. And that's really nice! Also, nature is such a great place to focus on the beautiful. To really *see* the blackbird in the garden that made a nest on the drainpipe, to really *see* the waves the wind makes in the tall grass of the fields. The beauty of nature is everywhere if you look!
Andrew Soligo me too. And for kurzgesagt. And amazing group of people. And for Philipp who has written every video. And for the guy who has done the music for every video and for Steve who has narrated every video. It is an amazing achievement. But most grateful that he/they keep doing it.
I started keeping a gratitude journal the day Michigan went on lockdown. Throughout the day I do a similar thing and search for the good, find the piece of the day I want to write about when my Presently app reminds me to write. There are days that I struggle to pick one grateful thing to write, there are others where I must search for the grateful through the sadness. But there is always something there, it simply takes a bit of thought and reflection. I'm glad to hear it has provided a positive experience for you as well.
I feel like the practice of giving gratitude everyday is something I grew to understand while watching Five Awesome Girls, but couldn't explain or articulate. I'mma purchase that book, and I'm grateful to this internet community
Since I started watching Vlogbrothers 10 years ago, they have always posted the video I needed as I needed it. As someone who has OCD (specifically surrounding intrusive thoughts), John has always been someone I could empathise with more than most and someone whose advice I've valued regarding mental health because I can relate on that level. This was a great video as always and gratitude is something that I have struggled to express. But even during lockdown and these scary times, I feel grateful to have more time with my son making space rockets, bug houses and plant pots out of recycling, teaching him the importance of the environment and looking after nature through gardening in pots on our balcony. It's the little things that make your day a bit better, and sometimes that thing is a Vlogbrothers videos at the perfect time.
John, Thank you for your seemingly unyielding positivity and hope. I always come away from vlogbrothers on Tuesdays with a little more to be thankful for, and another thing to smile about. I've found your insights really helpful over the past two months. Thank you for putting so much of yourself and your life on the internet for us to see-love and food and trials and tribulations and art and peace and sports and beauty-I feel privileged to see it. Even and especially when things suck, and that's your topic of pondering, I come away from your four minutes of thought with a feeling of calm, a sort of "this sucks. This really sucks. It's okay to feel that way, and you are not alone." which is invaluable to me. Thank you for sharing.
I like the way I feel right now; after watching that. I’m grateful for you, John. You’ve consistently enriched my days over the years. In what can seem to be a chaotic hodgepodge of monotony and ultimate doom, your body of work, so far, stabilizes it’s audiences to the point of achieving a positive shift in consciousness. You’ve done it, by cutting the bs and by not saying, “everything happens for a reason”, but by saying, “I’ve looked. I still don’t know, but I’m not going to forfeit the joys and the loves and the spoils of my days here just because shit happens that no one can seem to explain”.
I can always tell something is going on with me when I get weepy at things that are usually happy. I’m grateful for y’all’s videos and the inspiration and hope you give me without even knowing me.
I think it'll be Hank. Even though Hank likes the song more I feel like Hank will suddenly get excited about something and NEEEEED it in the title at some point.
Gale Prinster “the ice we skate is getting pretty thin, waters getting warm so you might as well swim” something in that bit feels like it’ll work for a beasts video also I don’t wanna see what shit show leads to the title of “my worlds on fire. How bout yours?”
Every night before my family eats dinner, we have to go around the table and state something that we are thankful for that day. We've been doing this for years now, and it helps you reframe the way the day went if you had an iffy day. Being more thoughtful and aware of gratitude and thankfulness has helped me a lot over the years.
First Writing Rule: Buy endless cool looking journals. Second Writing Rule: Never write in the cool looking journals. I've just started writing story snippets and stuff about my day in my journal.
I have this problem where my notebooks get designated uses, so it's like, "Well, I can't use this one or this one or this one because they're for different things." I have so many notebooks haha
I spent most of 2015 recovering from an eating disorder, and entered 2016 somewhat depressed and anxious. I made my new year’s resolution that year to post a photo a day of something I was grateful for that day. I credit it with helping my recovery and my significantly improved mental health. Gratitude journaling, however you do it, is incredible.
Yes! I started a simple gratitude journal last month and as an excessively anxious worrier it has helped me slow down my intrusive negative thoughts when I’m winding down in the evening and appreciate many of the good things I haven’t taken to time notice before. It’s shone a brighter light on how caring and thoughtful my husband is and how my toddler is the funniest person I know.
Mr Green, I just finished “The Fault in Our Stars” for the first time and loved it! You had so many poetic lines in there such as “ while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world” and “the sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed”. Thank you Sir for your genius.
I'm grateful that there's a man on the internet who shares his struggles and strategies so I can better navigate my own challenges. You and your brother have done so much to help me understand and enact the value of kindness, just really, thank you so much. Have an awesome quarantine!
I am due any day now with my first child and I have been hearing a lot of "what a terrible time to be having a child" and people feeling sorry for my situation in these times. But... I wanted this baby. And I love this baby and I am so happy that she's here. I am thankful that I have a safe place to give birth and a roof to put over her head when she is born and an amazing husband to love us and care for us and that he still has an income to care for us as well. I have so much to be greatful for.
Congratulations on your sweet one! Hope all goes well for you! I have four and in my opinion, being a mother is the best thing I've ever done. It's all ends of the spectrum: it's incredibly hard, fulfilling, frustrating, euphoric, satisfying, exhausting...but mostly, it's just awesome. :-)
I literally love John Green. Like, there aren't a lot of men on TH-cam (and the wider world for that matter) who are willing to share genuine emotions and grow and support learning. Vlogbrother videos as a whole make me happy in a very profound way. In short, I'm grateful for John Green today.
"I know I have alot to be thankful for, but I didn't know because I wasn't paying attention to what I was thankful for. I was only paying attention to what I yearned for." This. Right. Here.
Finding gratitude for the little things is how I have fought off Major Depressive Disorder for many years. I have been able to see beauty in the most mundane things (have you ever seen the psychedelic eyes of a yellow fly?). I'm also able to remember that when things are bad or frightening (how am I going to pay my bills?), there's always ALWAYS something that I can focus on to help me feel better.
I also have a gratitude diary! Practising gratitude is something my GP had recommended me a while ago but it wasn't something that I properly engaged in until I started my gratitude diary. A friend of mine got me a notebook for Christmas that says "Don't Panic" on it and the first thing it made me think of was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The second thing it made me think of though was what my GP told me about practising gratitude, and of the Kurzgesagt video you reference in this video. So last December I started my own gratitude diary, and even though I still struggle some days to find something I'm grateful for, I'm very glad that I now spend some time before I go to bed each night searching for it.
I am subscribed to this wonderful channel, Kurzgesagt and I was so happy when you mentioned them. I had almost forgotten about it, and watching you saying how that journal changed your life, I realized that particular channel has changed my life. I am grateful to this channel, to Vlogbrothers and every online community that makes the Internet and the world(almost synonymous to each other) a better place. Thank you! And I gonna restart watching their videos because not only they are informative, they calm my anxiety, which is eating my brain with everything happening around us. Thank you!
I started using gratitude journaling after reading Rachel Hollis' books and I felt that same way, that they changed my life. A few months back I fell out of the practice and since all this craziness has unfolded in the world I find my mental health being greatly affected. I realize I haven't been paying attention to all I truly am grateful for and have been meaning to return to this practice. I'm so grateful that Kurzgesagt made this book, and that it changed your life and inspired you to make this video, which in turn inspired me to get back to my own gratitude practice. And now I'm also grateful to have learned about Kurzgesagt from this video and look forward to watching their videos. Thank you John, for sparking this chain reaction.
"..because there's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be..." I feel like just hearing this from another person could be what I am thankful for today. Growth means trying to be the person you wish to be, even if you are not there yet
Hi. Kurzgesagt's gratitude journals can be found here: shop.kurzgesagt.org/ It is possibly the best $24 I've ever spent, but as I say in the video, you can also do this with just a pencil and paper.
Also, in the interest of full disclosure, the shipping and fulfillment of the journals (in the U.S.) is done by dftba, a company I own part of, but I do not get any income from dftba; it all goes to charity. -John
Kurzgesagt is very wholesome. You TH-camrs are making this much easier. Thanks 😊.
Thank you John!
Hi... My dearest author, John ... I'm Saddam Khan from a small village of India. I found your TH-cam channel few days ago. I want you to know that the first novel I read is 'Looking for Alaska'.*I'm grateful that you wrote that book*. I bought & read it when I was 21 years old in 2015 & I re-read it few days ago. I didn't read it earlier because partly when I was a teenager I couldn't read English very well as it's my 3rd language and partly because at that time I didn't had the luxury of spending money on books except the ones which I needed for study. Coming to the point when I saw the film 'the fault in our stars' I wanted to buy that book but somehow I opted for Looking for Alaska perhaps partly because it's your debut novel and partly because it's title and daisy flower cover attracted me. When I read it, I felt poignant . Although I never been in love I felt I'm falling in love with Alaska Young and when I reached to the point of her death it seemed that my own heart was shattered into thousand pieces. I wished that you kept her alive in the book because I loved that character very much. It's absurd but my first and only love is a fictional character of your book.
Hmm. This link isn't working for me?
"I have a long history of buying journals and not writing in them because there's a difference between the person that I am and the person that I wish to be" I FELT THAT IN MY SOUUUL.
Most people probably don't know but the Vlogbrothers and especially the first episode Crash Course World History were the *direct* inspiration and reason I started Kurzgesagt seven years ago. Without your work John, which is just so genuine, Kurzgesagt would not exist and I'm so grateful to you for that. I'm grateful for all the times you helped me with advice and encouragement and kind words. I'm grateful for your friendship, even if you are thousands of miles away. Thank you John. - Philipp
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I am grateful for the fact that John Green can get on camera looking like he just woke up after being kidnapped and dropped off with no wallet and no phone in the middle of nowhere and still kill it with his awareness and delivery in these videos.
hahahaha I mean you try wrangling this hair in a pandemic! -John
puff levels have been higher!
@@vlogbrothers i love the hair and i always have.
If it helps, I'm grateful for my stringy, limp, plain blonde hair... It can go weeks without care other than a scunchi or a hat. ;o)
@Autistic Perspective Are clippers the electric hair scissors thing (that doesn't have your head, I mean)? How did he break it? 😁
"Owls and Other Gifts" sounds a really good book title.
I was thinking about putting it on a throw pillow. Maybe with outdoor fabric so I could put it on my back porch as a reminder of what to look for
Honestly, "Owls and Other Gifts in your pants" is hilarious so it would pass the "in your pants" test
"Owls and other gifts in your pants". Yes, excellent book title
@@melonlord1414 Is that an Nerdfighteria inside joke from back in the time when I hasn't been part of this awesome community, yet? Would you mind explaining the "'in your pants' test"?
Lone Starr hi 😊 yes it’s just where you take any book title and add “in your pants” at the end. I can’t actually remember where it came from though- I think maybe back when Paper Towns was coming out
“There’s this huge difference between the person I am and the person I wish to be...” I have never felt so seen yet so called out 😂
This song says it all! th-cam.com/video/Q9WZtxRWieM/w-d-xo.html
Well, as long as I keep moving to get closer to the person I wish to be I'm oke with it
Me too, but its nice to relate to someone I look up to, and understand that even those i regard as perfect don't see themselves that way, so perfection is not something I lack, its just un-attainable💜💜💜💜💜💜
Oh wretched man that I am! I do what I don't want to do, but what I hate, I do.
Yes, so much of both things! I still remember the first time I consciously realized this fact, and how huge the chasm was between my imagined self and who I really was. There is still a big gap, but I'm grateful for everything that has allowed me to close the gap and get closer to who I want to be
These titles start coming and they don’t stop coming and I am completely ok with it. Thanks for this advice John 🙏🏽
No idea what you're referring to. -John
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This is literally the exact thing I came here to say. Well, everything before the "and I", but I agree with the rest. :-)
The video made me thoughtful/contemplative, and this comment made me laugh. DFTBA
This video has reminded me of a forgotten game I used to play with my mom when I was very little. Whenever either of us thanked the other for something the other would respond with "Thank you for thanking me", which led to the response "Thank you for thanking me for thanking you", which led to "Thank you for thanking me for thanking you for thanking me", etc until we couldn't keep track of it any longer.
I'm grateful for my mom finding a fun way to teach me to be grateful for what I was given, and I'm grateful to you John for reminding me of that game I used to play with my mom.
That’s so lovely! Thank you for sharing - no pun intended.
Gratitudes all the way down. -John
@@carissa-7 Thank you for thanking her :)
Searching For Sunbeams Thank you for thanking her for thanking her :)
@@straykanade Thank you for thanking her for thanking her for thanking her!
I was once on an overnight flight, and I saw someone check the time, realize it was almost midnight, open a document, and write three things they were grateful for into it.
I hope that guy is doing well.
Also, I'm sorry for snooping. The light was bright.
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Oof. "I'm sorry for snooping. The light was so bright," is a lovely line.
@@meredithmmc It's true!
"And I'm sorry for snooping.
The light was so bright" is actually a great 2/3 of a haiku
I speak for everyone when I say PLEASE GO THROUGH ALL THE LYRICS OF ALL STAR
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Yes, please
"Somebody once asked,
Could i spare some change for gas?
I need to get myself away from this place.
I said 'Yep, what a concept!'
I could use a little fuel myself
And we could All use a little changeeee!"
-Mouth Smash
My family, instead of writing them down, says them every night at the dinner table. We used to do this just during the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving (switching to email/text when my brother and I went away for college).
When I came back home to shelter in place, we decided to start doing it again out of season, and it’s definitely been a great idea. Not only does it help me see the things that are still wonderful in my life, but it also allows me to connect with the people I love over the things that are making us happy.
I love that idea! -John
Your videos and recommendations have legitimately made quarantine a more bearable and fulfilling time. It makes me feel like maybe I’m not wasting the time I am given.
Thanks, Gia! -John
Autistic Perspective Thats amazing haha. Would it be weird to mention that my family had two dogs named Ria and Zia?!
"I know the right things to think, but I don't know how to think them "
and John, with every video you post, my knowledge of that grows a little
I bought one myself, and it does indeed help. My wife, a mental health therapist, says that she will be recommending it to people.
It really is just much better than other gratitude journals I've tried. -John
Could I ask you two questions, just as someone who already owns this journal?
1) how much time does this actually take? John says "a few minutes a day" but he is a writer and also, he makes youtube videos and podcasts. So he's used to formulating his thoughts in way that is short and concise but still complete (I know writing takes time, but you know what I mean).
And 2) is it necessary to do this at the end of the day? Like, does the journal heavily encourage you to do this right before you go to bed or something? I have severe chronic pain so sitting up straight would be a huge task for me at the end of the day, but a significantly less huge task at the start of the day. It's one of the main reasons I keep failing at making gratitude journaling a habit. I was actually about to throw in the towel (if quarantine can't make this habit stick nothing can). This video though makes me feel like maybe.... one final try... if this journal is really that good... maybe..
Sorry for rambling ;)
@@reneedesoet7309 if i may answer, without being as awesome or having said journal. I'm just interested in habits and did psychology courses a little bit. 😸
So, if you're still interested:
1) Taking two minutes ✌️ for that might be enough to scribble down your thanks for previous hours/day of your life, just to be able to remember what was that about and to trigger 🔔 that warm feeling 🥰 while writing and on rereads.
If issue is remembering what happened - you can jot down smaller things 📝 as you go through the day, to remember them once per day at your journal time, and to maybe word them a little better.
But point is not quite in telling the story of your gratitude beautifully.
Point is to notice and remember stories of gratitude, which are already beautiful, which are already happening to you - no matter how exactly you'll word them.
Being a wordsmith may help, but that is never necessary in order to notice and remember good things.
2) Journal! Journal whenever it is comfortable to do for you, consistently day after day. 🗓️ Take a look at what you wrote before sleep though. And whenever else you'd like to feel better emotionally 😁
Act and habit of feeling gratitude and thinking of things we are grateful for - that's more important then how or when.
Associating gratitude journaling with pain 🤕 is probably counter to what this journal is for. You'll feel less good and habit will be harder to form as well.
Writing it after sleep💤 may alter what you remember - both ways. You'll forget some things, but also some things will be clearer in your mind, after connecting some dots while asleep. 🧠
So I wouldn't worry too much about that.
And if you wish, you can do take small notes 📝during the day, or write more often than daily, or try to find a few minutes in the middle of the day.
Taking a look before bed 🤓 is helpful for when you might feel bad and stressed after a full day 😞, your sleep might also get better if you fall asleep after feeling gratitude.
It improves your emotional state after all 🥳 , which is the whole deal with that Journal. 📘
Hey, thank you for reading this. I feel useful. 😊
@@reneedesoet7309, first of all, I'm sorry to hear you have chronic pain. :(
Personally, I spend no more than 5 minutes doing this. I don't write paragraphs, mostly lists and shorter phrases. And no, it doesn't have to be at the end of the day, it can be whenever you want. I write in it sometimes at night, and sometimes in the morning. I think just the fact that it forces you in to a new mindset is the idea. Hope that helps! :)
I spent most of my life thinking so-called “self help” stuff was a waste of time, until I developed anxiety and didn’t know how to cope with it. Mindfulness, yoga, and journaling have all been super useful in helping me appreciate my life and help me focus on what I can control rather than the things I can’t. And even though I forget more often than not, every time I am mindful, practice yoga, or journal I feel better and glad for doing so. I’m thankful this community is supportive and has helped me embrace what I used to think was pointless, but now recognize as incredibly helpful.
So it does help. I've been really REALLY off lately. I've used to anxiety attacks but not like lately. Maybe I'll try yoga again.
@@GrahamFraser It works for me! Helps me center my thoughts, focus on deep breathing, and often quells my anxious thoughts. I always say do whatever works best for you. But it's definitely worth a shot!
I feel the same way! Matt Haig novels helped me a lot as well :)
“There’s a huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I want to be” At this point the platonic ideal of myself is being confident enough to go to a restaurant alone
Can you explain that to me? It's really interesting. -I go to restaurants alone all the time.- Before the beer virus apocalypse, I went to restaurants alone all the time. It never seemed like a thing someone would have trouble with.
I was in a complete spiral last night, panic-inducing anxiety bomb that kept me up well into the night. I started writing in my journal all the things that made me scared or frustrated. I stopped and was ready to go to bed, still spinning, then got my journal out and thought, not until I've written down three things I'm grateful for. Once I did that, I felt so much better. I wasn't calm and zenlike and the problems of the world were still there, somewhere, but it took the edge off. It allowed me to finally lay down without pacing through the house for the 5th time to make sure all the doors and windows were locked.
I recently went through my office, trying to clean, and found I also have an affinity for journals and notebooks. I have dozens, most with a few pages from days long past, some with nothing at all. Your comment about buying journals to bridge that divide between you and the person you want to be really hit home. I'm going to have to give this new journal a try. As always, thank you.
I am a single woman with a mental illness, no kids no pets no partners, in a city I moved to a year and a half ago... this lock down has been...scary. totally unrelated to the video, I just needed to scream into the cosmos. Thank you for letting me scream.
Scream as much as you need into the void, and even better, into this void here. It is a scary situation, and being alone makes it definitely harder... I can only try to imagine how it must be to you, I don't have a mental illness (and I'm male, so that is already two privileges), but I understand how it is to move to a new place and still not be "at home" there... I've been living in a different country for 3 years, luckily I have had the time to make friends and feel good and safe here, but it takes time and work. But one unexpected consequence from the current lock down is that I've been talking (video calling) more often and I'm feeling closer to with my friends from my hometown. Everyone is meeting online anyway, it doesn't matter so much anymore if you live 2km or 10000km away... And that has been helping me! I hope you can do the same with friends and family, that are physically far away :)
@@RafaelFaenir thank you for hearing my scream ❤
We hear you. Scream away, sometimes you just need to.
Yes, we definitely hear you: May you feel the blessings we are sending your way; may your heart feel the love and warmth we want to give you at this moment; may you be peaceful and relieved after screaming so loudly; may you always remember that you can be physically removed from people but never alone.
@@marianalj8128 thank you and Amen. P.S. I'm on day 2 of feeling positive ❤
Today was a difficult day to be grateful for things. Not even an hour after I got up, I heard a story on NPR about a maternity ward being attacked and mothers and children murdered. How can I go around being grateful that I'm still employed or that I can build a greenhouse with the family or that the internet has brought me your wonderfully insightful videos while there's so much darkness and evil assailing us on every side? How does hope thrive in this condition? One person alone is incapable of fighting and I do not have faith that enough people can unite long enough or with enough strength of will to uplift the human condition above this utter madness.
That being said, John I am very grateful for your existence and your continued fight to decrease worldsuck. You are a beacon.
Growing up, my parents would make my sister and I say "thanks" before dinner. It was a sort of a modified version of grace, which they grew up with, but we weren't thanking God, we were just thankful.
I now live very far away from my parents and I don't usually share dinner with anyone, but now again I will say "thanks". Just to remind myself that life ain't so bad.
my english teacher before quarantine had us announce “good things” before class started, and it really changed how I thought about some things. It helped to hear what kinds of things other people see as good, and it felt good to announce my own good things to the class. i’m very grateful for this teacher :)
aww that's so lovely!
❤️ at several points in my life I've done gratitude journals of varying degrees. I'm currently living at home with my parents (which I haven't done outside of holidays for several years) and found one that I had used for about two months in 2014. I decided to start it back up, since I'm in the middle of a pandemic-induced period of bad mental health. So every day since April 7 I've written just one thing every day that was good. Only one thing, because it really only takes one good thing (and sometimes even one is a stretch). It's been shockingly difficult on some days, but I'm being strict with myself to come up with something every day, no matter how small or mundane. Even "washed my face before bed" can count, if that's the only good thing I can think of that day. It's not always easy, but I'm doing it.
Yes, yes, yes. Just this morning I was feeling particularly low and I searched for "how to stay positive." Gratitude journals were mentioned in most of the articles in my search results. I had heard of them before, but I never really took them seriously until now. I'm grateful for good coffee, and the job that I still have that allows me to buy it, and sunshine and fresh air and the ability to walk around in it. I'm grateful for music and my ability to listen to it and to make it. I'm so grateful for my family and friends and everyone out there in Internetville who I'm lucky enough to communicate with every day. Stay as healthy, safe, and sane as you can, everybody!
"There's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be and I continue to believe despite all evidence that making some purchase will help me bridge this divide and it never does."
Same.
John, thank you. Thank you again and again. I've watched you and Hank for a number of years since the early 2010s. I've loved all that y'all have accomplished with people over the years and together.
And thank you for recommending this gratitude journal. I also have a hard time actually completing gratitude journals and I love this channel that made it (I can never spell their name correctly, even though it is beautiful)
And I don't have the money to buy it rn. I'm a senior in college at UT Austin in Communication and Leadership with a minor in Journalism with student loans among other things.
So I hope to buy it one day and until then just write and reflect what I'm grateful for each and every single day❤
I am very grateful for my teachers, as I would not be the person I am today without them. I’m grateful for my mother, for supporting me through this time even though my mental health hasn’t been grateful. I’m grateful for nature, and how it is seemingly unchanged by this. I’m grateful for music, as it is holding me together through this. I’m grateful for all the people that inspire me, and for all the people that inspired them. And of course, I’m very thankful for Hank and John, for their honesty and wisdom that brings many comfort in an uncertain world.
"There's this huge difference between the person I am and the person I wish to be." - John, I think that should ALWAYS be true. Because you should ALWAYS be trying to be a better version of you. There is no end to that self improvement. No one ever achieves a perfect state. You never finish. Ever.
The line about 'and despite the evidence I believe that purchasing something can bridge that gap', really hit hard
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I would be okay with a smaller difference between the two!
Oooh. I like that.
"There's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be"
-John Green, bestselling author, famous educator, and noted philanthropist.
I know most people see in themselves room for improvement, and that is good and healthy, but it's still funny to hear someone who most people would aspire to be like say something like that.
I don’t think he would encourage anyone to try to be just like him, but being a bit more like the best parts of him is good.
Growing up, my parents introduced a nightly routine at dinner called 'What Made you Smile' - They saw it as a way to draw out the kids to talk about their day when they would otherwise be reticent or sullen, but also it made us realize there was always something to smile about even if it was just that the day was nearing an end.
I wish I was a person that journals everyday, I’ve learned that I am not. I’ve had one journal for the past 4 years or so that I’m just now finishing because I decided to only write in it when I feel I need/want to. Thanks for this video John, it will be helpful to try and thank about what I am grateful for when I’m going through bad mental health days.
It's almost like Esther day, but instead of a celebration to vocalize the love we have for the people and things we don't usually express our love toward, it's gratitude. In addition to Esther day, Nerdfighteria should also have a holiday in which we celebrate and vocalize the gratitude we have for the people and things we don't usually express our gratitude toward. On this note, I am extremely grateful for the sincerity and silliness in Vlogbrothers' videos and how they always make my day. Thanks.
Amen. When I describe Vlogbrothers and their projects I inevitably use the phrase "silliness and sincerity in equal measure" because I just haven't found anything more accurate than that!
Most Americans, a few months ago: panic buying and hording toilet paper
John, a few months ago: buying and starting a gratitude journal 😊
For real though, great video as always! I feel inspired to start one of these now!
I've started journaling at the start of this pandemic to keep a sense of the passing of time now that days all start to blend together, but I haven't felt a lot of the positive effects from journaling that I've heard other people talk about - I just attributed it to the stress of life right now, but now I'm thinking that maybe it's the way I'm journaling that prevents it..
After seeing this video and thinking a bit about what I put in my journal - man, no wonder it doesn't make me feel any better if the stuff I write about is so negative.
It actually makes a lot of sense that getting those negative things out of your system (which I was attempting to do with this) doesn't work as well as trying to focus on things that I can be grateful for and feel positive about - and that those 15 minutes of journaling each day are spent thinking about those things instead of pretty much reliving bad stuff.
Thank you John, I'm definitely going to try to shift my journaling focus towards gratitude and positivity :) Really looking forward to writing in my journal all of a sudden xD
Keep positive fellow internet-er!!
It's super powerful getting to choose what we remember. I look back for each date over the past five years and it fuels me so much. People would probably think different if they could see what they choose to focus on written down.
Starting today: I'm grateful for this reminder to be consciously grateful. I'm grateful for realizing I'm not the only one with amplified brain problems right now.
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Just yesterday I was watching another Kurzgesagt video and I remembered the one about gratitude and how I watched it, felt moved by it, and added it to my rarely-used "Watch Again" playlist. I was thinking I needed to go and actually watch it again, and then today, this. A sign? I'm taking it as one. Thanks John, I'll see you next Tuesday.
I’ve kept a journal for the past 4 years of my life to vent and tell stories and document my life. However, I’ve found that in the pandemic and with my terrible mental health, I’ve become almost afraid of writing in it. I suppose it comes from a place of being scared of facing myself and facing the good in the world. It’s so much easier to succumb to my fears and worries. I’ve been saying that I should write in it but I haven’t wanted to. Therefore, I haven’t wanted to feel better. Yet, this somehow made me want to do the thing I’ve always done when I feel pain, pick up my pencil and write. You’ve made me want to be grateful again John. For that, I must say thank you. I have no idea if I have the strength to do it but I want to try again.
Here's a random stranger on the internet telling you that you can do it. I believe in you.
Hope you feel better soon :)
Thank you so much - for this video in particular - and for all the work you and Hank do to decrease World Suck. I’m really struggling right now, alone at home while my husband recovers from a stroke. I gave up on the idea of journaling decades ago, but I think you have changed my mind about it. This seems like something that would benefit both of us, and I’m going to look into it further. 💝
Love and prayers for you and your husband.
@@mandime4798 Thank you so much! I hope you and your family are safe and well.
@@LorrainePorcello So far so so good, unless you count my sanity because my two teenage girls are in an anime/K-pop year long phase and I'm home every second to tell every little thing to. Even this I'm finding a way to be grateful for (or trying) because they talk to me and share things they like.
I tried this before, and I ended up forcing myself to find something to be grateful about. It turned out making me hate myself for not being "thankful enough". I have trouble accepting my pain and allowing myself the time to be grieve. Basically the thought process was, "I shouldn't complain because I supposedly have it so good... yet here we are!"
I guess my advice to people who think like me is this:
A) Be thankful in the moment. Like John, I'm a big believer in letting those I'm grateful to, know that I am grateful to them. I (try to) make it a point to tell them that everytime I genuinely feel like it - which is fairly often.
B) your pain is valid. Just because you could have broken your neck, doesn't mean your broken arm doesn't hurt. You're allowed to feel sad even if things are supposedly going ok. Just remember to ALSO keep your mind open to the beuaties of this world.
The world is a great and terrible place - it is ours to experience all of it.
I feel the same about gratitude - I prefer to count things that make me happy. It's less complicated, somehow, and leaves space for the bad stuff too. It doesn't mean that I'm happy all the time but a reminder that there's almost always something good in every day. And if there isn't, it's within my power to try to put something in, a favourite food or calling someone I love, or wearing my favourite skirt. It doesn't work all the time, but it does work.
I watched the video John referenced and they mentioned writing in a gratitude journal 1-3 times per week. Maybe if you knew you didn’t have to do it everyday, it wouldn’t feel so forced? I totally relate to struggling to feel grateful sometimes!
I've been catching up on recent videos today, escaping to the comfort of Vlogbrothers after a very difficult day. This video felt like a hug from my grandma. When my grandma passed away 2 years ago, my dad was going through some of her things to write his speech for her funeral. He showed me her "joyful moments journal." I read the whole thing, desperately clinging onto what was left of my grandma. In her journal I found my name. A moment from years ago when we surprised her for her birthday. That week I went out and bought a joyful moments journal for myself. This video showed me a different way to use it though. I've only turned to my joyful moments journal when I was feeling especially joyful, but instead I should be looking for the things and moments that bring me joy and write them down daily. Thank you for this, John. And thank you, Green brothers, for being my comfort on a difficult day.
Moral of the story: keep buying journals.
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And listen to Smash Mouth
I have a few over a dozen and have been daily journaling for five years. Still gooooiiiiinnng
This was the message I came for!
this gives me validation
I do something similar: in my diary, I dedicate entries to my accomplishments I'm proud of. It's easy to forget how hard something was after you did it.
Dear John,This was one of the loveliest VlogBrothers videos in recent memory. I too adore journaling. Instead of writing huge paragraphs about what I’m grateful for, I keep a gratitude log in my bullet journal . It’s been helpful for my depression. I’m grateful for this channel and you and Hank and your books.
As an individual in a 12 step program, it brings me the good feels knowing that someone I respect as much as John sees the value in our principles, even if he doesn't know that's what he's doing. Gratitude lists, "the person that I am" vs "the person that I wish to be", and "one day at a time" are all valuable lessons I've learned in The Program and I'm thankful that people outside that community have ways of learning the tools I've found so helpful.
I am grateful that this came on my recommendation page and I watched a John green video after many weeks of avoiding a John green video because I thought his optimistic attitude would rankle my brain and all that it is going through. But I watched this and sighed and thought that maybe my brain isn't my enemy here and it too wants to be happy, it is just really hard sometimes.
Six years ago, I began daily journaling in my first moleskine notebook and I have not stopped since. Before this, I mostly video recorded and talked to a camera every now and then off and on. I yearn now to have started earlier in life. The thing is, a journal so much more clearly shows my feelings and relationship to life. I have a page for every day, even if I had to catch up a few pages after doing something worth writing about. It is life changing and I can see in my writing how my attention and thought got more honest and enjoyable and fun and thoughtful. It has fueled me so much looking back, and I've even inspired some people around me gratitude journal in ways these past years. It works and it's fun to see parallels and remember how people's love near and far has carried me for so long. I love the story I have told and how others have helped grow it. Thanks for all these reminders,, John. Now I'm off to journal. (Also, someone please comment soon because not a fan of being commenter 666!!!!)
I’m grateful to hear my dumb brain stuff be reflected by someone I admire to remind me that I’m not alone. I think a gratitude journal is a great idea. Hopefully it will turn the “others have it worse” self punishment on its head. I needed this video, thank you
Hey, John! I showed this video to my therapist and he told me today that he bought the book and read through it. He loved it so much that he ordered 20 more for his clients! Thanks for showing this to us!!!!!
I'm so grateful for nerdfighteria. So, nerdfighters, if you could: please be kind to yourselves. You're an important part of this community and I'm glad you're here. I know much of what you're experiencing right now, and much of what the world is experiencing right now is a lot. It's okay to struggle with that, it's okay to not be at your best. Be kind, and look after yourself. Hydration, food, meds, movement, rest, something necessary, something fun--whatever you can do on the self care fronts, do that. I'm hoping I get to be grateful for each of you for many years to come.
Hey now, nerdfighteria. DFTBA!
That looks like a lovely little book. :)
While I don't write down my gratitude, for years now I've been practicing a skill of appreciating when a moment is nice. When something is lovely, sit in that moment for a moment, and consciously tell yourself, "if this isn't nice, I don't know what is." It's really grounding, and is a fantastic chance to appreciate the tiny little pleasant moments that make up a life.
I kinda of unintentionally did something similar with the One Second A Day app on my phone. Because you want to have one second every single day, but not every day is interesting, you start finding little things to take videos of. I have videos of my coworkers talking, of my cat being silly, of light coming through the trees outside my apartment. But I also took videos of less good things, like a selfie video of me in the dentist with a toothache, which I also found therapeutic when I would rewatch later, cuz in the moment it SUPER SUCKED, but watching later it reminds me that "this too shall pass". It was more an exercise in living in the present when I'm so accustomed to dwelling on the past and freaking out about the future. I'm going to look into this journal though!
Thank you, as well, John. Because your videos make MY life a little better, even just being able to listen and know that other people are out there who care about the world and about - well everything.
This has most certainly not been just any few months. So much has changed and so much is still changing. Sometimes I don't recognize my own family, now. I've learned more about how to argue well and kindly in the last two months than in my whole life, because I cannot escape debate anymore, I can't hide from politics and disagreement and conflict. I'm still terrified over it and spend a lot of time dealing with that. But I'm better at dealing with it. Better at standing up for myself. And some of that I learned here, some not. But I'm grateful nonetheless.
These days it's not just don't forget to BE awesome.
Don't forget - any of you! - that you have always BEEN awesome.
I am particularly grateful for these videos and for The Anthropocene Reviewed.
Thanks, Paloma! -John
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I honestly find that, no matter the subject matter, the most soothing podcast on my playlist. Just the way John talks about the subjects, it's beautiful.
I faithfully kept a gratitude journal for a year and a half, and it felt good. When I got married it threw off my routine, and I stopped. I recently started again, and some days I write a lot, some days I can barely think of one thing I am truly thankful for that day other than it's over. But as I start writing I think of more things I am thankful for from the day. It is the little things, like, "I am thankful my son gave me a hug when I felt sad." Or "I am thankful for peanut butter Oreos."
Thanks for sharing John.
I'm so grateful at this moment for the access that we have. Sitting here at a whim I can look up and download a PDF of poet I like. Or maybe on a slow simmering day, I can play that game from my childhood and experience it anew. Grateful for all the innovation and technology of the 21st century. Thank you John :')
hearts.
The idea that you have bought journals you did not write in makes me more comfortable with the idea that I might not be consistent in journaling, and that comfort - in turn - helps me journal without being sabotaged by my own fear that I will not complete the journal and thereby fail to accomplish some ethereal end that journaling has, and THEREBY demonstrate my own unworthiness.
You’ve reminded me that I’m worthy by allowing me to relate to you, and that is beautiful.
It always surprises me when John talks about how he wants to he better because I aspire to he like John
Man... About 3 months ago, I had been writing in a journal consistently, everyday filling out a couple of pages. At the top of the pages, I would always write down a couple things I was grateful for that day. After years of doing this, documenting almost everything in the stacks of books I had filled, I stopped.
It was right around when this whole Covid-19 mess started. I don’t understand why I stopped, but recently, it has been hard to start up again. I miss the companionship that a journal gave me. It allowed me to write down my true thoughts, while giving me peace and comfort that I relied on heavily to get through the day. Definitely a therapy. John, your words have inspired me to regain a part of my life that I had lost during quarantine. I’m going to write again! Thank you for your words of encouragement and love. Much appreciated.
I own SO MANY like "fill in specific answers" journals I've never written in... So many people would see this as a failure. I see this as a world of possibility I will eventually get to. Eventually... SO many. OH MY GOSH CAN WE HAVE A DFTBA VLOGBROTHER inspired JOURNAL type thingy?
we could get together some nerdfighters and create something? maybe not physically but digital so its more accessible?
Journals all the way down?
Yes, I’d love to help by creating prompts based on videos and nerdfighter things!(: they could be things like “write a review of something in the world as if you are writing for the Anthropocene Reviewed.” or “What is one songs music video that you would do a frame by frame break down for, and why?”
This sounds amazing, a free printable or writable questions we can all enjoy and be inspired by
@@GallifreyGirl170 yes!
Absolutely loved this one, John. I think a lot of us with mental health issues have been having a tough time these past few months. I've always appreciated your openness in talking about mental health and helping to take away some of the stigma for younger generations. Like you, I know I have a lot to be grateful for, but I have to admit that when things are spiraling out of control, it's easy to focus on other things (or to feel guilty for falling apart). Thank you for the reminder that actually taking time to look for, notice, and focus on the good things daily as an exercise can be such a helpful tool, even if I know I have tons to be grateful for. I'm grateful for this insight right now, along with so many others you've shared over the past decade or so. Profound thanks.
The streak of All Star titles continues!
Thank you for this video! I’ve always been told when I had poor mental health to write gratitude lists to help. But if I thought about the good in my life then I’d be filled with incredible shame for the pain that I feel despite that good. But gratitude really isn’t a tool for comparison or harm. It’s just a way to focus on your the good and wonderful in your life and thank you for verbalizing that. I think that I will be able to really think about what I’m grateful for now.
I keep thinking that I must have a pretty good “normal” life to miss it so badly at the moment - so perversely, I’m grateful to be so sad at the moment because it means things were going well before! Don’t know if this makes any sense but I’ve found it to be a helpful frame for me.
This makes sense to me. I’ve experienced the same bittersweet feeling when moving to a new city. It’s painful but only because of the meaningful connections you’ve been lucky enough to make.
I started gratitude journalling a little under a month ago and while I sometimes still forget, it does allow me to focus more on the things I'm grateful for, the things I find beautiful, the things I find interesting, the things that went well. And that's really nice! Also, nature is such a great place to focus on the beautiful. To really *see* the blackbird in the garden that made a nest on the drainpipe, to really *see* the waves the wind makes in the tall grass of the fields. The beauty of nature is everywhere if you look!
I’m grateful for the vlogbrothers.
Andrew Soligo me too. And for kurzgesagt. And amazing group of people. And for Philipp who has written every video. And for the guy who has done the music for every video and for Steve who has narrated every video. It is an amazing achievement. But most grateful that he/they keep doing it.
I started keeping a gratitude journal the day Michigan went on lockdown. Throughout the day I do a similar thing and search for the good, find the piece of the day I want to write about when my Presently app reminds me to write. There are days that I struggle to pick one grateful thing to write, there are others where I must search for the grateful through the sadness. But there is always something there, it simply takes a bit of thought and reflection. I'm glad to hear it has provided a positive experience for you as well.
If you plan on doing this with every lyric in the song, it's gonna be a grand finale when it's completed.
I'm embarrassed that I just realized today that this was even happening and it's absolutely the best.
I feel like the practice of giving gratitude everyday is something I grew to understand while watching Five Awesome Girls, but couldn't explain or articulate. I'mma purchase that book, and I'm grateful to this internet community
Loving to see the trend continue!
Since I started watching Vlogbrothers 10 years ago, they have always posted the video I needed as I needed it. As someone who has OCD (specifically surrounding intrusive thoughts), John has always been someone I could empathise with more than most and someone whose advice I've valued regarding mental health because I can relate on that level. This was a great video as always and gratitude is something that I have struggled to express. But even during lockdown and these scary times, I feel grateful to have more time with my son making space rockets, bug houses and plant pots out of recycling, teaching him the importance of the environment and looking after nature through gardening in pots on our balcony. It's the little things that make your day a bit better, and sometimes that thing is a Vlogbrothers videos at the perfect time.
John,
Thank you for your seemingly unyielding positivity and hope. I always come away from vlogbrothers on Tuesdays with a little more to be thankful for, and another thing to smile about. I've found your insights really helpful over the past two months. Thank you for putting so much of yourself and your life on the internet for us to see-love and food and trials and tribulations and art and peace and sports and beauty-I feel privileged to see it. Even and especially when things suck, and that's your topic of pondering, I come away from your four minutes of thought with a feeling of calm, a sort of "this sucks. This really sucks. It's okay to feel that way, and you are not alone." which is invaluable to me.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!...
no, it's me. i can own that. be well. and thanks.
I like the way I feel right now; after watching that. I’m grateful for you, John. You’ve consistently enriched my days over the years. In what can seem to be a chaotic hodgepodge of monotony and ultimate doom, your body of work, so far, stabilizes it’s audiences to the point of achieving a positive shift in consciousness. You’ve done it, by cutting the bs and by not saying, “everything happens for a reason”, but by saying, “I’ve looked. I still don’t know, but I’m not going to forfeit the joys and the loves and the spoils of my days here just because shit happens that no one can seem to explain”.
I must know, which do you pick first, the All Star lyric, or the subject for the video?
I have no idea what you're referring to. -John
I can always tell something is going on with me when I get weepy at things that are usually happy. I’m grateful for y’all’s videos and the inspiration and hope you give me without even knowing me.
So, who do you think would be the first to break the All Star chain?
I think it'll be Hank. Even though Hank likes the song more I feel like Hank will suddenly get excited about something and NEEEEED it in the title at some point.
Idk if Hank will be able to find a fitting title in the lyrics for the next beast video.... so he might have no choice
Gale Prinster “the ice we skate is getting pretty thin, waters getting warm so you might as well swim” something in that bit feels like it’ll work for a beasts video also I don’t wanna see what shit show leads to the title of “my worlds on fire. How bout yours?”
Every night before my family eats dinner, we have to go around the table and state something that we are thankful for that day. We've been doing this for years now, and it helps you reframe the way the day went if you had an iffy day. Being more thoughtful and aware of gratitude and thankfulness has helped me a lot over the years.
First Writing Rule: Buy endless cool looking journals.
Second Writing Rule: Never write in the cool looking journals.
I've just started writing story snippets and stuff about my day in my journal.
I have this problem where my notebooks get designated uses, so it's like, "Well, I can't use this one or this one or this one because they're for different things." I have so many notebooks haha
I spent most of 2015 recovering from an eating disorder, and entered 2016 somewhat depressed and anxious. I made my new year’s resolution that year to post a photo a day of something I was grateful for that day. I credit it with helping my recovery and my significantly improved mental health. Gratitude journaling, however you do it, is incredible.
Its nice knowing Im probably not the only one that has a little stack of notebooks that resulted of failed journal attempts.
I'm there with you!
Yes! I started a simple gratitude journal last month and as an excessively anxious worrier it has helped me slow down my intrusive negative thoughts when I’m winding down in the evening and appreciate many of the good things I haven’t taken to time notice before. It’s shone a brighter light on how caring and thoughtful my husband is and how my toddler is the funniest person I know.
Will the next one be "My world's on fire, how 'bout yours" because that fits so well in COVID-19 times
Mr Green, I just finished “The Fault in Our Stars” for the first time and loved it! You had so many poetic lines in there such as “ while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world” and “the sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed”. Thank you Sir for your genius.
I would like to meet an owl!!!
I'm grateful that there's a man on the internet who shares his struggles and strategies so I can better navigate my own challenges. You and your brother have done so much to help me understand and enact the value of kindness, just really, thank you so much. Have an awesome quarantine!
I need a change, just in general
I am due any day now with my first child and I have been hearing a lot of "what a terrible time to be having a child" and people feeling sorry for my situation in these times. But... I wanted this baby. And I love this baby and I am so happy that she's here. I am thankful that I have a safe place to give birth and a roof to put over her head when she is born and an amazing husband to love us and care for us and that he still has an income to care for us as well. I have so much to be greatful for.
Congratulations on your sweet one! Hope all goes well for you! I have four and in my opinion, being a mother is the best thing I've ever done. It's all ends of the spectrum: it's incredibly hard, fulfilling, frustrating, euphoric, satisfying, exhausting...but mostly, it's just awesome. :-)
As a native German speaker it is kinda funny to hear the way you pronounce "Kurzgesagt" xD
I literally love John Green. Like, there aren't a lot of men on TH-cam (and the wider world for that matter) who are willing to share genuine emotions and grow and support learning. Vlogbrother videos as a whole make me happy in a very profound way. In short, I'm grateful for John Green today.
Hey John, I recently read The Kite Runner.
Awesome book
@@alexanderlieberman2109 absolutely. Most emotional I've been while reading a book, ever.
@M J I'm planning read some of his other works. I'll do so soon.
"I know I have alot to be thankful for, but I didn't know because I wasn't paying attention to what I was thankful for. I was only paying attention to what I yearned for."
This. Right. Here.
I’m curious to know what kind of change happens in our daily lives after this pandemic has ceased.
Finding gratitude for the little things is how I have fought off Major Depressive Disorder for many years. I have been able to see beauty in the most mundane things (have you ever seen the psychedelic eyes of a yellow fly?). I'm also able to remember that when things are bad or frightening (how am I going to pay my bills?), there's always ALWAYS something that I can focus on to help me feel better.
the last time I was this early we could still go outside
I also have a gratitude diary!
Practising gratitude is something my GP had recommended me a while ago but it wasn't something that I properly engaged in until I started my gratitude diary. A friend of mine got me a notebook for Christmas that says "Don't Panic" on it and the first thing it made me think of was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The second thing it made me think of though was what my GP told me about practising gratitude, and of the Kurzgesagt video you reference in this video.
So last December I started my own gratitude diary, and even though I still struggle some days to find something I'm grateful for, I'm very glad that I now spend some time before I go to bed each night searching for it.
Still waiting for an All Star cover
I am subscribed to this wonderful channel, Kurzgesagt and I was so happy when you mentioned them. I had almost forgotten about it, and watching you saying how that journal changed your life, I realized that particular channel has changed my life. I am grateful to this channel, to Vlogbrothers and every online community that makes the Internet and the world(almost synonymous to each other) a better place. Thank you! And I gonna restart watching their videos because not only they are informative, they calm my anxiety, which is eating my brain with everything happening around us. Thank you!
How long is the All Star title bit gonna go onnnn
I started using gratitude journaling after reading Rachel Hollis' books and I felt that same way, that they changed my life. A few months back I fell out of the practice and since all this craziness has unfolded in the world I find my mental health being greatly affected. I realize I haven't been paying attention to all I truly am grateful for and have been meaning to return to this practice. I'm so grateful that Kurzgesagt made this book, and that it changed your life and inspired you to make this video, which in turn inspired me to get back to my own gratitude practice. And now I'm also grateful to have learned about Kurzgesagt from this video and look forward to watching their videos. Thank you John, for sparking this chain reaction.
Wow first. Love you guys
"..because there's this huge difference between the person I actually am and the person I wish to be..." I feel like just hearing this from another person could be what I am thankful for today. Growth means trying to be the person you wish to be, even if you are not there yet