January 25, 2022

It is not everyday that our days are shiny and bright. Sometimes we start our day with an upset mind and some little irritation. Me, I started my day with a very down feeling, feeling envious on some people online posting their success stories. I have my own success stories too to share, but why do I feel their successes are much better?

I am happy with my little achievements and sometimes, if I am not successful I still celebrate my effort because sometimes my effort is much bigger than the positive result I expected. I lower my expectations too sometimes. I always talks to my mind and advising myself to calm down if the result is not in my favor. I do believe even if we worked hard, there are things we still not get. It only means those things are not for us, not yet, maybe soon or maybe tomorrow, but it is not for us yet.

Aside from the message I shared to you, my mantra when I am feeling down, I also made a list of things that will make me feel okay when I am down. Being jealous and envy is one of the ugliest attitudes you can wear everyday. It is normal to feel it, but it is not good to stick with it. When you feel down, sorry for yourself, upset, jealous, envy and many things that could build up negativities, please refer to this blog of mine. I hope it helps to lighten up the building blocks of negativities inside you.

Reason Why you are still Lucky!

You are breathing fine!

It is not that we feel sorry for those who had died soon, we will surely miss them and we always hope they are with us. Death is inevitable all of us are getting there, but for the meantime, we are still alive. If you feel bad today, it is just a bad day, not a bad life. There are people who are struggling to live because of their illness. You are lucky you are breathing fine. It is enough to make you feel calm and forget about what upsets you.

You have your Shelter!

Some of the people don't have a permanent home and some of them don't have house. You are living in a house with complete roof, with appliances and furnitures, a good bed, with Wifi, with gadgets perhaps. If you feel upset about someone's success, you still one of God's children for having a house and for having what you call a "home".

You have foods on your plate!

Some people are hungry. Some are only eating once a day, some are eating once a week. Some are get to used to being hungry and they get sick. Yes, you might be eating twice or thrice a day, but it is enough to be happy because you are lucky. Regardless of the food you eat, regardless it is cheaper or expensive, what matters is that you put something in your stomach and it adds energy for you to perform your work and being a human for a day that will function normally.

You are not Sick or You don't have Illness

Imagine the amount of money people spend to get heal in the hospital. Not all can afford the prices of the medicine that are prescribe for them. Hospital bills are big and can caused anxiety. If you are healthy, you are good. We feel bad for the people who suffers due to their illness and we pray for them to get heal quickly. While we pray for them, we need to continue to be healthy because we are lucky enough being healthy.

You have your Support System, Family or Friends, relatives?

When we feel down, we sometimes find tranquility and calmness if we talk to the people who we think could understand us without being criticized hard. They could be a family member, closest friends or closest relatives. Some people when they have problems, when they know they can't rely on other people, they will just keep everything on themselves. Instead of exhaling all the negativity from their problems, they are inhaling all the toxicity that leads them to feel depress more. Some of the cases of depression leads to suicide and still one of the top 10 Reason of deaths in all countries. If you have one that will always listen to you and willing to help you, congratulations because you are so lucky. Please take care of the friendship because that kind of friendship doesn't happen all the time. Whatever you are feeling, remember you matters and your feelings is valid. If you feel upset, be upset, do not deny it. Just make sure you have someone that will listen to you.

You have Job or Work, Earnings or Income Source

Regardless of the amount of your salary, it is still a salary. If you feel envy about people having a high paying job, remember this, you might feel envy with them but also recall your past effort in building your own economy. Maybe you are in different department, or they have higher position that is why they have bigger salary. Do not compare if you did not do the same effort as them. Just be realistic and try to remove any envious feeling from now on.

Now, maybe your salary is not enough and it brings you stress every time your bills are piling up, please feel lucky that you still have a source of income. It might be enough for now and the only thing you need to do is to add another source of income to feel good about your budget. When I feel stress about my bills, I always feel thankful that Read.cash is here because even if I am earning less than what I used to, I am still lucky I have other source of income. I am so thankful for this site.

Before I continue, let me add these wonderful souls that supports my thoughts and writing on this site. They are the reason why I am earning less than average here but that amount is a big help for my everyday expenses!

The lists above is good enough for you to remember you are lucky. People around you must be receiving more, enough for you to feel upset about your present situation but what you really need to do is to execute a plan on how you will give freedom from what you feel. Do something about the reason why you are upset, envy or jealous or might as well pray to God and give all your burdens to Him because he knows what to do more and we just need to follow. Remember you are lucky, just appreciate little things you have right now so that bigger things will come soon.

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