Taking things for granted and not realising that not all are endowed with what we have been blessed with is the biggest bane that interferes with our happiness.
I am always in the attitude of gratitude but slip I do sometimes when I am not watching and vigilant about it. Here is one place where I almost slipped.
Not all routine jobs give us joy but in order to survive we need to do them. Those who accept them with a smile on their lips are winners.
I am no good in jobs that have a repetitive action like the job I was doing this morning. Shredding cashew nuts for my favourite bread pudding I found it to be quite boring and since I had to do it I did it but with no enthusiasm. I did not have readymade cashew nut pieces and so I had to cut each cashew nut into tiny pieces. I disliked doing this and was quite miserable until my sub-conscience reminded me of my own dogma that I follow to remain happy and that is the attitude of gratitude. I had slipped from my own path and detoured.
Here I was,who could afford to buy cashew nuts and all the other ingredients to make my bread pudding while millions around the world were starved of even an ordinary meal.
I lead a comfortable life endowed with all the necessities of life. I had every reason to be in the attitude of gratitude but I went astray and these thoughts of ingratitude floated in front of me. I had to quickly control these bad thoughts and succeed I did. What I realised was that we have to keep a constant vigil on our own thoughts and see that we do not go astray.
I apologised to myself and quickly got out of that situation and enjoyed doing what I was doing.
The bread pudding is now prepared with all enthusiasm putting in a doze of gratitude which I am told when added, anything that we lay our hands on becomes a success.
Yes. My bread pudding turned out great. I am waiting for guests to arrive and it will be served with all love and a big doze of attitude of gratitude.
I only hope I will not be a subject of ingratitude ever again.
I am off to another boring chore but I have promised myself that it shall be done with all enthusiasm.
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In everything I do, I always so grateful to God for giving or experiencing things in this world. Even in the form of bad experiences are needed to feel grateful. The reason, we can always learn something from it. In time, you will know what to do next time in achieving the best craft of surpassing the same situation that may come along the way of life.
Some people will feel in misery after experiencing bad things in life. They forgetting something that life is not perfect. There are always flaws. These flaws of life can still be a tool to be a better person. At the end of the day, we still feel grateful that we had experienced it. The reason, we were able to know the outcome of having bad or good decisions in our lives.
@shavkat The ability to identify our blessings is the true route to happiness. I think I have found it and for which too I am forever in the attitude of gratitude.
There are many who do lack sense of gratitude. We can offer this at any from and kind.Just a word thank you can make a feeling great for us.It does does not require gold.
@cely Some just cannot count their blessings and for those I only have sympathies.
These are part of the human nature and the best of us can feel zealous, nervous or over enthusiastic for something in particular but it all depends on how one keeps him in control in such a situation.
@suny
We need to keep a vigil on our own behaviour as it can sometimes go beyond control.
Gratitude is the best attitude and I firmly believe in it. I daily write in my gratitude journal about the things I am grateful for during the day.
It must make for some great reading if you read them all over again at one sitting. It will also take you to the time when those great things that happened in your life. Since how many years are you doing it?
That is true, there are many of them who do not count the blessings.They are what we want to call hypocrites.They think that there is no other time to let them realize how important is to be grateful.
@cely In the end they are the losers as no matter how much they have they will not see happiness until their wants are fulfilled and those wants have no limit. Attitude of gratitude comes when one sees what they already have.
It is so sad thinking about this kind of people.I think they are haters of life.In a family, it is also very important to say thank you as sign of being grateful to mom, to dad and to brothers and sisters.I hope many children grateful to their parents.
Its very easy to take things for granted and believe that your life is just terrible, when in reality you have everything you need. Different things make people happy or content in life, maybe a few friends, yoga, cooking...whatever it may be we all have those few things that just make our life better. I have never been the one to take anything for granted I have always appreciated everything that is around me and everything God has put on this earth for me to explore. There are so many things this world can offer us but sometimes we only see what we want to see and that is "limited options". But that is incorrect, our options are unlimited in this world and we should appreciate everything it has to offer us.
@Angel When we look around and see the miseries that people go through enough is not enough to be in the attitude of gratitude.
In this world of today where people keep to themselves, no one wants anybody else to be involved in their world there is th3 attitude of not being greatful and that is very sad. We all need each other to help one another but that cannot be achieved if we cannot be greatful to one another. Gratitude is an act that can propel one to go to greaterheights without even realizing it but that's one thing that many people don't recognize. I always say to myself what does it cost to say thank you to someone who has done something for you or someone who has given up something so that you may be have it what is so hard with that? But there are people who just cannot sat thanks it really gets me thinking what type of people we are. It pays just to be gracious you don't have to see it to appreciate it.