Recently I’ve had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude. I started paying more attention to what I have and noticed that gratitude is something that arises pretty much on its own, there’s no need to force it.
I’m feeling grateful for little and ‘big’ things in my life:
- for having a roof over my head, feeling warm, having food and clean running water, bed, clothes;
- for my health, even though sometimes I need to attend to it a bit more that I would’ve expected. I’ve noticed that any dip in my health brings out some important message that I need to listen to, which is not necessarily directly health-related;
- for access to education, my intelligence and desire to learn. I’m so grateful I can read and write and can speak and/or understand more than one language;
- for having jobs that I really enjoy doing and for professional development opportunities;
- for freedom of choice, movement, speech; the fact I can vote;
- for my family and friends.
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Although I put people at the bottom of that list, it doesn’t mean they are the least important thing in my life. Very often I find myself struggle to comprehend how lucky I am having so many wonderful, kind and fantastic people in my life. I’m not sometimes sure how it happened that our paths have crossed, but sure I’m very very grateful for it 🙂 Sometimes I catch myself thinking what I’ve done to deserve having them in my life, but then, does it really matter? They’re a part of my life and I’m feeling grateful.
So to all my friends and family, my acquaintances, colleagues, neighbours and strangers, who in one way or the other have had an impact on my life : I feel very lucky and very grateful that I’ve been experiencing my life journey with you. Thank you for being here 🙂
I need to do this myself, too. Gratitude list – written down on paper. Sometimes, I just make a mini list of positive things in my head, to help me when the not so positive piles up.
I like this idea. At some point I was trying to keep a record of at least 3 things I was grateful for each day, but it didn’t stick. Nevertheless, I feel grateful every day for little things in my life, even though I don’t write them down. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
I think it’s important to remember to be grateful for stuff. Too often we compare ourselves with the people who have it better than us and feel hard done by. Too rarely do we think to compare ourselves to the people who don’t have it as good as us (i.e. most of the population of the planet for the whole of human history.)
Thanks for reading and your comments, Paul. Absolutely, we tend to focus too much on what we don’t have rather than what we have and forget about those, who have less than we do. I think that even a little shift in awareness towards appreciating what we already have can make a tremendous difference and can give more room for gratitude to arise.