That One Thing I am Grateful For

A lot of people are depressed, pains of failure, stagnation, rejection, and a lot more have robbed them of the privilege to be happy.

A friend of mine recently was telling me about his neighbor, who was once rich, owned cars, and had a few properties. In my place, one can say “he is financially free.”

One fateful day, he went out with his friends. On their way back, they had a fatal accident; his friend survived, but he died.

Imagine the money and assets he labored for; within a few moments, death took him away from it. The money and assets are still there, but he can't enjoy them anymore.

Most people think that before you can be happy and grateful, all your heart desires must be in place: you must be rich and have all you all want, but it's not so.

I know life is difficult, but everything doesn't have to be going fine before we should be happy and grateful.

Go to the hospital, and you will learn a lesson. You will see people like you who desire to be out like you and just be able to do things by themselves but they can't.

Sickness holds them bound, depriving them of enjoying life. To some, it is so bad that the air we breathe freely has to be substituted with artificial air, and they have to pay a huge amount of money for it.

If you are still alive and you are healthy and you think you don't have anything at all in life to be thankful for, you are an ingrate.

Things might not be going so well, but being alive is hope. It is more valuable than anything else. Someone who is alive and healthy can still become anything.

He or she can still achieve anything provided they are ready to pursue it, but a dead man is not better than a salt that has lost its sweetness; it becomes profitable for nothing.

I do complain about life sometimes, especially when things aren't going too well. I believe that's not peculiar to me alone; we all face this at some points in life, and I think that is another form of emotion that we need to deal with.

Ask me one thing I am grateful for today, and I will tell you it's tgift of life and good health. These two are priceless; you can't get them in the market.

No matter how rich you are, your money can't buy them. There are a lot of rich people out there looking for these, but they cannot afford them, yet I have them for free.

My life is not anywhere near where I want to be. There are so many battles I have been fighting, and sometimes it feels like the effort is not amounting to anything, but any time I remember that I am alive and I am not lying on a hospital bed, I appreciate God and see reasons to be grateful.

The story my friend told me about his neighbor has become a lesson for me. I thank God I realized this early. Whether we have much or not, if you are alive and you are not spending on your health, even if you are spending on your health, you still need to be thankful that you didn't die.

If you have seen a dead body before, if you have seen how helpless it lies, you would understand what I am trying to say.

One beautiful thing about being grateful is that the more we show gratitude, the happier we become, and the more we begin to understand life. It is at that point that maturity and breakthrough for many will come.

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