Grateful

Thank you God. Really - A big Thank You!

I want to do an exercise - of quantifying the positive and negative thoughts I have during a day or even during a conversation. I feel the need of doing so after meeting a friend today who's story made me realise how much time I waste in complaining rather than appreciating what life has bestowed on me so far. 

Only yesterday, for some brief minutes I let myself be a conceited person. My swollen head full of 'Oh I have done it all on my own', 'I work so hard for it' notions. I am so grateful to God, that within 24 hours I am humbled again. Thankful and Grateful, for all things I have got - hard work or not, the rewards cannot be taken for granted, ever.

Her difficulties are not hidden from me, and by all means she has never shied away from a fight. Such grit, such determination, such devotion to life, truly amazing. I am ashamed to have thought of her in any other way. Such terrible times, and yet, to have the heart to share. To have the attitude to fight another fight, to have the mind focused, still on the right things, to have the resolve to stay and persevere. I salute.

You have taught me a few things today, and I hope not to forget this in a hurry -

1. Money matters - but only to an extent

2. Will to win should stay, no matter what, no matter where