Thankful…
If you can read this, be thankful
If you can get up and walk away, be thankful
If you have an angry conversation, be thankful
If you can go to the ice box and get a cold drink, be thankful
If you can wake up and see the sun, be thankful
If you have a car, be thankful
If you have to drive to work everyday of the week, be thankful
If you have bills to pay, be thankful
If you have only one good friend, be thankful
If you you must use a wheelchair or a walker to get around in, be thankful
If you feel the chill of the night air, be thankful
If you have a house to live in, be thankful
If you have food to eat, be thankful
If you have water to wash yourself with, be thankful
If you only have one dollar, be thankful
If you have a wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend be thankful
lIf you have nobody except for the silence within the place you call home, be thankful
If you can cry, be thankful
If you can laugh, be thankful
If you have to share a bed with someone or not, be thankful
For everything you have, for every situation that involves you, always be thankful,
For there is always an opposite, usually something negative, and someone else is stuck with it,
To be thankful means you are alive and that you can take any path you choose in this world.
Only four things are certain in this life- birth, school, work and death…
All that is in between are just the side dishes and condiments and different sauces to put on your rice.
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Actually, school is not certain and same goes for work.
Neither is birth. It is by chance that you as a being gets created.
Anyways Benjamin Franklin said it best:
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
A colleague of mine died recently and so I’m yet again reminded to be thankful for every crappy, rainy day I’ve seen since that he didn’t get to see.
You all, except TeacherLady gets this. You all think too hard and read too much into this post. Just be thankful, DAMNIT! Just be thankful that you can think too much and write your thoughts on this. Sheesh!
Damn! Now you got me reversing the order. TeacherLady IS the only one who gets exactly what I am talking about. School can be anything you learn, get taught and is not necessarily the western version. Work, everybody works. It may not be for money, but it must be something, even if it’s next to nothing. Birth- the fact that people die is enough to say that birth is a certainty, as is death. Nothing remains the same forever. Death and morphing is birth or creation or change into something else.
My apologies at getting you riled up, but that was just not the intention. I was just into my queer humor mode in response to Jina’s comment.
Anyways, I did get the point of the post, but I would say life is a mixed bag of situations which can result in some unpleasant experiences in which one cannot be thankful. For example, the loss of a loved one is certainly not something one can be thankful about.
I would just say life is an interesting ride that touches all the senses for better and worse, with people either picking up on the better parts, such as your approach about being thankful, or the opposite with those believing its just some sort of gloom and misery where they get “screwed over” all the time.
I am not thank full for anything nor will I ever be.
Jina, some day you will be thankful for something. To not be thankful that you can sit at your laptop or PC and communicate with the world and perhaps make a difference… well… I am thankful that you are here and that you are alive and that you could be the one who saves us all from killing each other… if you believe, then nothing is impossible.
Curious, ditto. It’s hard to be thankful if someone close to one dies. I am just at that point in my life that I wanna see the silver lining in all situations. Sometimes it’s damn hard, and yeah, personal tragedy is a mofo to get over.
Life is full of surprises, many of which are not pleasant. Whenever I’m with friends and family I wonder whether it’s going to be our last time, whether one of us has to leave soon.
I am appreciative of everything I have, mostly my family, despite all the problems we face. I met a housemaid once who was crying in the garage of the house she worked in, so I asked her if everything was alright. She said “I am fine. It’s just that my son started his first day of school today and I wasn’t there to see it.” I cannot begin to comprehend how life must feel like for many of such women, some of whom don’t see their children for as much as 10 or 15 years.
Our problems, compared to most people are really nothing. What we stress about is trivial. Everyone reading this is lucky and privileged. Some people would kill to be where we are. We should all be thankful.
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