Gratitude’s Helping Hand

To celebrate what we have, to see beauty in loss, and to see beauty in the mundane.

An example is my previous answer about 3 things I am grateful for right now. One being the consideration of others; by noticing and being grateful, you strengthen bonds and love because you notice the effort and give thanks.

I am respected and known for my positive attitude and my gratitude. I have inspired friends who have reached out and told me so. It has helped most relationships in my life because I am happier and more positive overall.

Often, I get a message from someone on FB telling me how my gratitude got them out of their head and feeling better about their current situation.

When I stopped snowballing negative thoughts and started automatically being grateful, like knowing that I had been gifted loving parents, that when they died, I was devastated, but I started viewing myself as lucky to have had a love like that to lose, to begin with, some people go their whole life without experiencing that kind of love.

Toxic positivity. Misunderstandings that gratitude takes away any and all bad moods and feelings. Life still hurts sometimes, and you have to be gentle and experience the emotions and let them go, not guilt yourself out for having a rough time and not being grateful enough in that moment.

Take time to learn about the struggles of living in a 3rd world country so you can be grateful for things that you overlook daily, like clean drinking water, electricity, and a safe place to lay your head.

I tried taking my life before; I had depression and anxiety and was deeply abused. I crawled out, and gratitude was the hand that helped me.