I believe that we all have something to be thankful for, but we just don't take the time to express it. It seems as if we spend more time on thinking about what we don't have have or how some one treated us.
Let's do reserve psychology. Let today be the day that you begin to "count your blessings" instead of thinking "I deserve that". The truth is "what do we deserve?" Society has planted the seeds that life is all about you, when the truth is life is not all about us.
Ponder on the word "grateful". The dictionary states that grateful means "feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; appreciative of benefits received or expressing gratitude".
Let's look at what we can be grateful for:
You are alive.
You can speak.
You can read.
You have an education.
You have a warm home.
You have food to eat.
You have a job.
You have a family......
As you can see, the list could go on and on. Yes, there are people that may have more money than you, maybe they have a large house and a high-paying job or even a family, but the question is "what do you have?"
I just recently read about an exchange student that was having to take a bus to get anywhere. He said that his friends, who had cars, couldn't believe that he would take the bus. He said that he was thankful to take a bus because back home there was no transportation and he had to walk everywhere he went.
Life is simple. We are the ones who make life more complicated than it is.
There are so many slogans are out there. My slogan is "I choose today to be a grateful day". What is yours?
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