Buffaloguy
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Not long ago, I learned about this website. I use it when the spirit moves me and I manage to become more attuned to what gratitude is and how often I complain without considering my blessings. In that spirit of thankfulness, I want to post some thoughts which help me. My hope is they spark others into seeing another perspective in their own lives. In spite of some misfortunes I have lived through as well as present challenges such as physical limitations, vulnerability in mind and spirit and an unclear future, I choose to be grateful. I know there will be better days and some days which will not be pleasant. I also know and accept that it is a changing process and I will get through. It is up to me. I can choose to be unhappy, frightened and a victim, filled with pain, anger, resentment, envy and self-pity or I can choose acceptance and hope. In doing the latter, I can always balance things by creating a mindful list of all the blessings. There are countless others with far less than myself. Therefore, I can focus on my fortunes and rely on the strengths God gives me to survive. At times our suffering is what we choose.
I am grateful, for today and the challenges while I know I can accomplish, learn from and be thankful.
I have a mind that helps me seek solutions. I have a warm home. I have food, and plumbing, conveniences, transportation and opportunity to create more. I have a mind that can help me find peace and happiness in small things I sometimes take for granted.
I remind myself of those less fortunate who are near and far. They have hardships I cannot fathom and how dare I complain. I assume others are happier, smarter, better off and have all the things I do not have. In those assumptions are judgments which distort the truth and they may have anxiety, pain, hurt and personal demons. The difference is they may hide it better. The fact is we live in a world filled with images that give appearances of something they are not. We choose to make our own reality by assumptions that may be miles from the truth.
When I remind myself that I am the source of my happiness by my own thoughts of acceptance without judgment, I can be in a place of gratitude. When I consider the gifts God has granted me, the sacrifices of mothers, fathers, soldiers, social workers, clergy and the sorrowful loss parents feel when a child dies and here I am complaining…I am moved instantly into a new reality.
Yes I will have my hardships as does everyone else, but it is how I choose to see my reality. I think my glass is always at least half full and there I many days I fail to see when my glass overflows.
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