gratitude of life

Gratitude of life is the ability to appreciate everything big and small that life gives us. We have been living in luxury for a long time, our living and communal conditions are many times better than they were in the most majestic palaces of the 15th-18th centuries. Kings and queens did not have showers, water closets, warm floors, beds were much less comfortable, and traveling in carriages compared to even an average modern car is sad: long, shaking and without music.

We have been living in paradise for a long time — we did not quickly get used to it and no longer appreciate it.

You don’t like eating oatmeal because you don’t know what wormwood porridge is… Eat up, gentlemen!

In the subject — an excellent article by Ekaterina Kovaleva «I’m happy just like that», here is a fragment:

“I thank God for my mother who bought the wrong apples that I love, but I still appreciate her for remembering that I love apples at all. And it helps me to be grateful and appreciate what I have.

I adore my little sister, who was given to me by God and who always knows how to surprise me. Even when we argue, I see her bright soul, and I like to communicate with her even more.

I appreciate my kitten, which I can’t teach to go to the tray, for helping me become more tolerant and stronger. Because he teaches me to show love anyway, even when they did it to you.

I do not like my soul in my nephew, who is not just smart beyond his years. He is a very wise child. And often his phrases like: “We don’t get offended in our family! Only the weak stomp behind! Do not return evil for evil! And thanks? You forgot to say thank you! help me become wiser and more enlightened. He brings up in me not only the ability not to be offended, but also to respect all men in his person.

I am immensely grateful to our neighbor, who continues to teach me about life and always inserts her signature phrases into our everyday conversation. But she also teaches me to hear myself and have my own opinion.

I respect and appreciate my boss, who is not always satisfied with my work, and sometimes can scold me. But he has many good qualities. And he also teaches me to be myself, to appreciate myself, to praise myself when others do not. In general, he helps me get up from my knees when they put you down on them. And I become even stronger and continue to thank him for it. He is a big guy. He pays me well and I love my job.» Fully see →