Be Grateful for Something Simple
We might see homeless people around us. They live their lives every day in a street on empty stomachs. Every night they feel too cold to sleep. They walk in a street hoping to find leftover food or hoping someone will help them. The last day they ate maybe a week ago. They never meet people they love anymore. They are just alone in the street and no one knows them. maybe they never talk with someone in a long time because there is no one who wants to talk with them. They feel excluded.
I watched a video that showed a homeless person who was very grateful just because someone wanted to talk with him. When they were asked, “What makes you happy today?”, they answered, “Just like this, talk with someone”.
With all their shortcomings and misfortunes, they still have their kindness. I saw another video that showed someone who tried to ask for some pennies from a homeless man as a social experiment, and the homeless man gave it without asking for more. Another video showed the homeless man receiving a lot of money from someone but he gave the money to his friends who were the same as him, other homeless people.
And now, let’s compare it with our condition.
We are in our own homes with the comfort and warmth that we feel. Every day we can talk with our family, our beloved people. We can laugh while watching something funny on our television or phone. Our stomachs are never empty. We can eat everything we want. We can sleep comfortably.
But with all the advantages and luck of our lives, we still often complain about everything. Complain about the bad taste of our food, our deadline tasks, our broken hearts, or other things that may be trivial compared to what homeless people feel.
Isn’t everything you have now enough to be your reason for you to be a grateful person?
If you still find it difficult to be a grateful person, train yourself to be happy and grateful for something simple.
I try to make a gratitude journal every day before I go to sleep. I list 3 points at least things that made me happy or grateful that day. And I feel it trains me to be a grateful person even with something small. I ever write “A cup of coffee in the morning”, “Talking with my mom while eating our lunch”, “Read a good novel”, and “Meet with my old friends” as lists in my gratitude journal. It is something small, isn’t it?
You can try to write your gratitude journal as well which can force you to list what makes you happy or grateful every single day. I believe it will become a good habit for you to be a grateful person.
Thanks for reading! And as always, SMILE because you are so much amazing! :)
