I am grateful for every second of my life.

Every second is a great deal to hold at once, so it helps to shrink it down to something you can actually pick up.

Most seconds are unremarkable. The walk down a corridor, the wait for a file to open, two minutes at a bus stop. They are the majority shareholder in a life and they almost never get counted. Even the difficult ones are not nothing. People routinely find that the years they would never repeat are the ones that made them useful to somebody later.

You do not have to be glad about all of it. Being here for it is a separate thing, and that is the part worth noticing.