“But I have found that with the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.”
-Elizabeth Edwards
Things I am grateful for:
- Life
- My memories
- Experiences
- People Who:
- inspire me
- influence me
- love me unconditionally
- think about me
- offer me wisdom and knowledge
- give me self-confidence
- compliment me
- give me the truth when need-be
- Communication
- Music
- Art
- Expression
- Generosity and Kindness
- Miracles
- The belief in something greater
- My bad days
- the ability to see the good in my bad days
- the good days that make the bad days worth it
- My good days
- my really good days
- individuality
- independence
- my innate ability to see the good in people
- wearing my heart on my sleeve
- Family
- my mother’s strength
- my father’s quirkiness
- my dog’s never-ending love for life and people
- pushing through hard times
- Spirits of:
- strength
- courage
- weakness
- sensitivity
- power
- wisdom
- maturity
- happiness
- joy
- sadness
- pain
- innocence
- purity
- madness
- sanity
- insanity
- patience
- cherishing the good
- reminiscing
- past, current, and future close friends and acquaintances
- appreciated effort
- growing older
- watching others grow older
- all the things that could have gone wrong today, but didn’t
I once read, it is not the happy people who are grateful, but the grateful people who are happy. After reading it more than a dozen times, and mulling over what it meant to me, it finally hit me. I started to practice being happier, and really enjoying what I have been given. Now, forgetting the immense amount of blessings a person has in their life describes an unbearable situation for me. I can’t help but be reminded of the blessings I have in my life beginning the moment I wake up, a blessing in itself. I feel so grateful for the life I have been given, as well as the people in it. I hope someday to share my blessings with someone truly in need of them. So, to end with some words of motivation…you deserve to live a life worth living for. “Try to be alive, you will be dead soon enough (credits to Ernest Hemingway).” Maybe 99% of you reading this didn’t need to hear those words, but that 1% did, and that’s all that matters. Have a great rest of the day.
Take care,
Sierra
Hope is a Waking Dream 