Grateful or hateful. Are we thankful for our lives or do we always wish for something better? When we pray, do we ask for something else or do we give appreciation for what we have?
Nothing wrong with aiming for something better. Our lives should always progress. If we do not then we would not be holding this phone in our hands or even talking to people very far from us.
We could be living like animals living each day in the vast land where we are just thinking of the next food to eat. Or battling for survival daily and killing anyone who threatens our way of survival.
Not going far back to the past, without the house we are in, the food we have, our jobs, the money that we use to sustain our lifestyle, and the family and friends that support us even if now and then we get into a disagreement with them, our lives would be impossible to traverse without anything.
And most of the time we forget this wishing things would get better. Again, nothing wrong with that. However, when we always focus on having more and having something else, we tend to forget that what we have is what we need and take it for granted. Instead of being grateful, we resent what we have hoping and wishing and praying that we have something else.
Before we start asking for different things to come our way, we should appreciate what we have. We should at least say our prayers giving thanks to whoever higher power we believe in every day for everything that we have in our lives. And even if we do not believe, it is also what the Law Of Attraction says. Or even without those two, just merely saying thanks every day for all of it will make us realize that what we have is what we need and anything that comes our way is an enabler for us to do more.
Most of the time we wish for something else. I hope we all find in our hearts to always be thankful and show appreciation by taking care of the blessings we have whether it is material things or the people around us as we are a product of the combination of our situations and our innate self.
For just today, think of the things you have and be thankful for them. Instead of complaining, instead of focusing on what should be, focus on what is real and just be grateful. Looking at what others have may help in motivating us to do better however, if we just wallow in it and forget that we are blessed with what we have, we disregard everything that has given to us. If we become grateful for what has been given to us, we remove our focus on things we do not like and shift our attention to the things that matter and get more of it.
In effect, by being thankful, we get more of what we need. We get better gradually. We get to help others in return for what we have been given.
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