Plant Your Gratitude Tree!

Annelise Lords
The Yessba
Published in
4 min readMar 30, 2023

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Plant a gratitude tree from the best thing going on in your life. No matter how tiny, hopeless, or difficult it is. And watch your happiness grow.

Image by Annelise Lords

Look at this tree, it’s growing from the concrete. No soil is there. It is so happy its leaves spread out in gratitude.

Tired of listening to Joan complaining about all of the horrible things happening in her life, Sue eased up from around her desk and walked a few feet over to her clutching her purse. She pulled a hundred-dollar bill from it, then said putting it on Joan’s desk, “here, go and plant a gratitude tree. Don’t you have anything in your life to be grateful for?”

Image by Annelise Lords

See this sunrise, humanity’s cruelty is destroying our earth, and the sun is fighting pollution to make our world happy as many economies rely on the sun’s ability to shine to live.

Joan stared at her.

“Girl,” Sue went on. “You are the highest paid employee right now in our department. For the four years you have been here, I have never heard you say one word of thanks for your life, job, health, friends, family, the weather, all of the gifts you get for Christmas, your birthday, or anything else!”

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