Are we thankful enough?

Are we really thankful for what we have?

When life is great and things are going good, we can’t help but enjoy life and revel in it. We enjoy and milk it for all its worth. We are so full of happiness that we don’t have a care in the world. We are so blinded by everything that’s going right and well that we don’t stop for a second to take it all in and be thankful that it’s happening to us.

Well anyway, time passes and life goes on and sometimes it gets better and other times it gets worse. There are days when you feel like you are drowning from everything around you. This feeling engulfs us all sometimes. It’s hard to think about the positives when all around us things are crumbling and disintegrating before our very own eyes.  We get this overwhelming feeling that this is not our life or how we imagined it would be when we dreamt about growing up.

Life isn’t a fairy tale but it sure seems to have villains making us wish we actually were in one because then we could have a guaranteed happily ever after. Sometimes when having the mother of all bad days we stop and think why it always happens to those that don’t deserve it. I don’t know if we ever will know the answer to that or so many other questions. But what I do know is that in some way or the other it is a test to see what we’re made of and how we deal with it.

Sometimes I look around and see everyone else pass by me as I feel like I’m standing still watching everyone move on to better things and it hurts. I feel happy immense pride in those that do and immense shame in the fact that I don’t. I don’t have any negative feelings in anything except myself for being not good enough .I know it’s wrong to judge yourself by someone else’s’ standards but at times I can’t help what I feel.

Each of us has been handed a different of rules and situations to deal with a best we can. Everyone is unique and each of us takes life differently from another. No one knows what someone else is going through until you look closer. Everyone has secrets and sadness and we all deal with it separately.

I go into my little bubble and refuse to let this poison drown me from inside out. I try my best to flush it outa my system. I do anything and everything I can do to get myself out of this funk because I know I’m stronger than that. If I can’t do it alone I ask for help.

On these types of days I try to look back at the good things that I do have in my life. These things may be very minute and barely noticeable but in the end these are things that make me smile. Like the stupid jokes with my friends, family and the ones I love. I try and concentrate on everything that’s gone right in my life and I realize that I’ve got a lot to be thankful for in this life. It’s funny how the little things in life make the biggest impact on us and we don’t even notice it unless it that longer exists. 

Everything we go through in our lives makes us stronger and wiser. It gives us an opportunity to experience life and everyday that we’re alive is a blessing so we should be thankful and not waste it wondering what could and should be. Live it as it comes and enjoy it as much as we can because at the end of it, all you’ve got is one life.

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