By default, everyone would be grateful for the gift of life, this is because it acts as a basic or a platform through which other gifts are built upon. Now it might feel strange, but this is largely true. Being alive is a gift because we aren't alive through our own making, even it's our habits, practices or lifestyle that often determines how well our lives eventually turns out. Life is challenging, life can be hard, but a high percentage of people are grateful to be meandering through.
They're happy to cultivate hope in moments of despair. Being alive comes with moments where pains make people wish they weren't. Sometimes it's difficult to appreciate the gift of life, especially when every circumstances that comes one's way can be overwhelming. Nevertheless, there's a way we can find a balance and sometimes when we achieve this balance, one can then be able to tap into the beauty of life and enjoy it accordingly.
Specifically, everyone eventually narrows down the gift of life to other aspects, because mind you. We're sometimes subconsciously and consciously grateful. For waking up, for overcoming challenges, for getting help when it matters the most, for silently calling or seeking God when we can no longer handle a situation and mysteriously something unexpected happens, and we're good again.
Sometimes we're grateful without even making it obvious that we are. Being subconsciously grateful is always shown in our attitude and our dispositions, the way we tend to talk to people, the positivity in our voices, the smiles we give as feedback. Sometimes others wonder how we manage to achieve this positive energy. The truth is, there are times in our lives where we need to "win". Need to find accomplishments and need to scale through, when we eventually do, we're subconsciously grateful by cultivate even better position aura, vibes or energy.
As for me, I'm grateful....
...for having the right people in my life to some extent Now I wouldn't say in all aspects but the aspects that actually matters the most. Having the right people is everything, from having the right parents, right acquaintances, colleagues, friends and even family. This is because these people, who they are, where they come from, how they're impactful and how this impact generally aligns to us play a key role in our foundational development.
Everything I have been, done and achieved in life has been because of having the right friends, who I'll call family. While growing up, that gave me a motivation, inasmuch as my hope for life didn't stem from my biological parents, my hope that life would eventually turn out rightly was being exposed to them. Their "can do" spirit, their drive and positive outlook to life.
Life however brings a blend of the right and wrong people. Not everyone is lucky enough to attract the right people. Attracting the right people isn't determination on your goodness or qualities and positive values. In fact these might be weaknesses which attracts the wrong people. Like I said, luck plays a huge impact. Sometimes in life, we're in the right place but just at the wrong time or just at the wrong places but the right time.
Being at the right place and at the right time is a blessing, the right "timing" brings a lot of positives. This is why some people spend the rest of their lives in search of the right people, while others just effortlessly have the opportunity to meet the right people even without setting out to find them. Sometimes we play a role, sometimes forces greater than our reckoning does. At the end of the day, it's always a blessing to have the right people.
No one is 100% motivated or demotivated on their own. At one point in time, we become "who" or "what" the people in our lives decides. A person driven by success or growth, might be gassed out, tired and fatigued due to the problematic condition of continuously pushing in life, they'll need that extra push.
At every point in my life, I've seen stages where I've given it up, there's been no stage in my life where I haven't been faced with challenges that might have made me give it up, but having the right people have countlessly made the difference. This is why I remain grateful. No one can say they're who they are, of their making. Everyone needs a dosage of motivation to keep pushing through the hurdles of life, and it comes from the environment "without".
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@josediccus, reading this post reminds me a lot, especially some challenges I have faced in life, however I'm grateful to God for the gift of life which is a blessing. I'm also grateful for everything that happened as a result of motivations from external sources.
As for me, aside from our parents whom God used to bless us in life, God also use friends or partner to be a source of blessings to one. However, not everyone is lucky enough to get the right person who may be a source of motivation and hence lives a miserable life, and this why I'm also grateful enough to have sweet people around me...
Not everyone is lucky, being lucky doesn't mean we're good or bad, sometimes some people are just lucky out of the ordinary, no matter what they truly deserve.
@josediccus, yeah, you're right brother
It's really nice reading this particular post of yours, it means a lot to me.
Life is indeed beautiful, and yet still unpleasant. But the fact that we get to live to see another day is something we're always grateful for.
Meeting the right set of people makes the journey of life a lot easier, but sometimes not all people we think are right for us are actually right for us. Some of them present themselves to be right and at the end of the day they leave nothing impactful in our lives.
You're right and you really should be grateful my friend.
Thank you sharing your experiences with us.
From my childhood, I've met some of the best people and they've been instrumental to the man I became. Although so many wrong people have turned out by default, others by necessity, however it's important to note that building with the right people gives our existence more meaning. Different types of people will come in, but as for me, I'm grateful for the good ones that has come into my life.
True, we tend to meet a lot of people. The good ones are the best things that'll ever happen to us. So there's every reason to be grateful. Thanks for replying bro ❤️
In the wake of all this, the most important thing is the fact that we can always pick out some things to be grateful for and it is only possible because we wake up to see each day.
I'm sure that if I should read other entries to this contest, up to 80% will talk about being grateful for their life. At a point, it may sound like a cliche, but it just doesn't write off the fact that our life is very important.
Nice one bro. Well Done
Well, overall, I believe that we're always grateful for Life, I just specifically decided to narrow mine down to having the right people in my life because I believe it gives me a particular essence.
Overall, having the right people have Sincerly been crucial and it's why I'm already making emphasis to it at all time.
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