Gratitude

I cannot overemphasise the importance of building relationships, as we need people (directly or indirectly) to survive on earth. To keep this straight and simple, it is almost impossible to say we have not been beneficiaries of someone’s kindness or generosity. That you’re on this platform, writing and earning is due to someone’s benevolence.

Gratitude is an essential gesture or the right response to someone’s kindness. Being grateful for what you have or for what someone had done for you opens way for more. John Randolph Price says:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life, and turns what we have into enough and more. Gratitude make sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

I am the kind of person who automatically feels indebted to people for the little kindness or help they show to me, I never forget. It is not like they expect it from me, but it is how I am. When people help or show kindness to me, they automatically become someone I like, because that impression hardly leaves me even if they are unkind to others. Weird, I know, but it is what it is.

Gratitude is the least you can show when someone helps you out in a time of need. We must be grateful for even the littlest gesture of kindness and generosity people show us and also for the things we have.

So, I ask WHAT ARE YOU GRATEFUL FOR?

First of, I am grateful for life. That I am alive now is something to be grateful for. People die daily, every minute worldwide, and for some reason I am still alive, pushing and trudging life’s bumpy Road.

Secondly, I am grateful for my family and friends. They have been amazingly instrumental in forming the person I am today. Friends who have stood by me through thick and thin and never left me to deal with my problems  by myself. I cannot thank them enough. I am grateful too for those who have hurt me or have been a part of my life at some point in time, at least they have taught me something.

Also, I am grateful to the creator(s) and sponsor(s) of this platform, they have created an avenue for me to learn and see the world through people – amazing members of the platform who write beautiful stories daily that are educative, insightful, and exciting. Reading and writing daily articles has been a blessing, so much so that I look forward to it daily. I am sure you do same too. To my amazing subscribers and users who engage in my articles, to my benevolent sponsors, I say a big THANK YOU 🤗

Feel free to comment about what it is your are grateful for in the comment section, and show gratitude to those you can. Remember, it doesn’t have to be a grand gesture or monetary. A little THANK YOU… I APPRECIATE can go a long way.

I will leave with a piece I wrote many years ago, not sure if I should call it a poem or if it is even one, but I came across it some days ago and thought to add it to one of my articles, so, here it goes:

For the smiles we lost

For the people that turned dust

For the efforts that failed, no matter how hard we tried

For the pain we hid, even if all we did was bleed

For the tears we never shed, even though our hearts bled

For the times we didn’t gain, even though all we experienced was pain

For the times we were betrayed, and our trust shattered

For the times we wanted sweet dreams, but all we got was nightmarish seam

Thank You For Reading 🖤🖤