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.

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.