Gratitude list, just for drill:
- Wife and kids
- Home
- Health
- Continued accomplishment of X (you know what it is) for so many decades
That last bullet point shows the limits of writing in this way. In fact the whole list is vague because of the medium I am using.
But the feeling of gratitude is real in spite of the vagueness.
If you took it all away tomorrow I would be sad (unlike a stoic) but I believe I could start over from nothing, like a stoic, and continue to live a good life.
Keeping that last bullet point would be a necessary ingredient to a good life in those circumstances, but that is within my control.