New Book Contains Gratitude Items
The cafe in New York where Loan Journal first appeared. On the cover were the words "Today I am grateful."
Teddy Droseros, who has been writing down his gratitude for ten years, put the book in the coffee shop with the owner's permission.
He returned to the cafe the next day and found his diary full.
"It's always a great experience because people just pick it up, bring it to their seats, and just read it." ' he told Droseros' chief national correspondent for 'CBS Morning' David Benaud.
Doloroth said that the journal should be a tool to make people feel grateful. But it didn't take long for the book to fill up, so another journal was left there.
After moving to San Diego, Droseros continued the project, leaving his diary at Bird Rock Coffee.
His friends also kept diaries in various cafes around the country, and soon he founded an organization called Droseros the Grateful Peoples.
"A friend of mine helped me pick up a book while traveling, and I started getting random emails from strangers. This coffee shop
He says that reading his diary cheered him up during a difficult time.
I noticed that if I went to collect a full book when I was home, I would immediately feel better," said Doloros.
As Droseros himself has admitted, Droseros has not always been one to show gratitude, especially since he lost his mother to cancer in 2019. When he was a child, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He said his mother's health problems robbed him of a normal childhood and left him bitter. 's experience, as you know, multiple sclerosis affects the brain and changes behavior and personality.It was very difficult.It was at the time." “But what made me so passionate about gratitude, and why I came to appreciate people, is that everything I went through with my mother was probably the reason why it took me so long to write this journal.
He wrote his first entry on February 29, 2012. In it, he wrote how grateful he was to be able to do the sport.
"I am grateful to have been born healthy into a wonderful family that has all the limbs and can do all the things you could do as a child. I played all these sports as I grew up." It was a blessing to be able to do it," he said Droseros. He said.
In 2017, a journal was found right in the classroom. Since then, more than 20,000 children have taken part in the project, writing down their gratitude lists just before class begins.
Droseros collected his 75,000 entries and created a book named after his first diary. This book is full of gratitude collections.
"I read through the whole thing. It was like a 75,000-bit perspective, so this was a blessing," he said. .
Somewhere among those 75,000 entries of his was an entry from his 28-year-old dancer, Diana Mondello, who died in a car accident in 2018. Why Dorothyros decided to write a book.
His one of the closest entries to Doloroth is that of his own mother.
"She wrote, 'I am grateful to be alive.' The fact that my mother was able to think and feel that way was special to me. I just know where my mom was when I wrote that that's why I love this diary and I will keep it forever.
It has been five years since Doloros left his first thank you book. He still writes in them, and often about his mother:
"The more you lose, the more I gain. When your illness takes away the simple , I realized how lucky I am to have them. I don't know if you can understand how lucky I am to tie my shoes.I love the things I can't change.It's the inspiration behind everything I do."
David Begnaud is the primary national correspondent for CBS Morning, based in New York City.
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