Appreciating

I've been studying the inside of my head a lot lately, partly trying to figure myself out and partly trying to at least understand the worried funk I've been in - ideally to get rid of it, but if I can't, at least to learn about it. And one of the things I've realized is that, whatever other talents and skills I may or may not have, there are skills that I *do* have that I have been taking for granted enough that I didn't even recognize them as existing, or being anything than a routine part of my life.

I've always known that I'm a pretty decent cook. But it's just recently that I understood that menu planning - being able to put together a meal out of what you've got, or plan out food for a week and keep it all creative and interesting and having it fit into your schedule and budget - is a skill in and of itself. And I've been shortchanging myself by not acknowledging that.

Life has been pretty darn unpleasant for lots of folks lately. Fate has been pretty hard on most of my friends, and this has translated into people being pretty hard on themselves in return, and we could all stand to break that cycle. So...

Tell me - what talent or skill do you have that you haven't been acknowledging, or giving yourself credit for?