'Tis the season to be grateful and thankful for the positive things in our lives. During the holidays, we have the opportunity to reflect and express our thankfulness for: friends, families, abilities, opportunities, and more. I believe in order for us to be grateful for things in life, we must have an internal meter of sorts. For some reason, I still remember an evening in junior high. A book report was due the next day and I had not finished reading the book. I recall feeling that this was absolutely the end of the world and my despair and panic was intense. I got through that and now many years later cannot comprehend how I thought this was such an intensely stressful moment. My perspective meter was young and not fully calibrated yet.