Yo, those of you who've been doing the gratitude meme-thing!

[kaberett]

3_good_things_a_day :-)

I'm not terribly active there these days for much the same reasons I don't participate much in Monday Pride -- obviously daily gratitude is a practice I find helpful, but I appear to be twitchy doing it in spaces other than my own, and especially about being congratulated for doing it. awesomeers doesn't make me anxious in quite the same way, possibly because I know the founder and most of the people keeping it active (and possibly also "I did a thing", with the executive-function focus, feels less intimate than "here are things I am grateful for", with the corresponding emotional vulnerability?)

Just, like, community exists if you wanna make frndz with it. ♥

Comments

[syntaxofthings]

Awesomeers is just a great way to help defeat impostor syndrome. You don't even have to fake pride. You just say "I did a thing." And we get that these things are HARD.

[cosmolinguist]

I do like the idea of gratitude. And I am striving to practice it more deliberately. But I think one thing I prefer about awesomeers is that each day's contributions are all collected in one place, and they're in the comments. So if I don't feel like reading them at some point (and sometimes I don't think they'd be good for me, odd as that must sound), I totally don't have to. And when I do, they're all in one place.

[kaberett]

FWIW this is also true of 3_good_things_a_day! One of the mods makes a post every day, and comm members get to add their own lists in comments.

[littlebutfierce]

Ahhhh I always thought that comm was dead w/only like 2 ppl posting in it, b/c it's not obvious from looking at its main page (not the profile) that you're supposed to leave lists in comments. ^^;;

[rynia]

Yooo, thank you! These look helpful potentially. <3