What does it mean to be grateful?
I know we hear it all the time. We hear people talk about “being grateful” and “how grateful they are” how they “aren’t grateful and that’s the reason why they’re not happy.” We hear this all the time. But what does it mean to you, what does it mean for you to be grateful? What does it mean to have things for which to be grateful? What does it mean to not be grateful?
Does it even matter?
Asking what it means to be grateful is the same thing as asking what it means to be able to walk on two feet at work; what it means to use two hands to do what you want them to do, what you need them to do, and often more than what you deserve them to do; it means to ask what it means to have a voice.
Those who are not grateful, merely have not stopped to see that they are, that they exist. No matter what form you exist within, for every misery in life there is something to be grateful for. Sometimes in the midst of those miserable moments there is something to be grateful for in and of that misery.
This is not about rationalizing the difficulties of your life away this is not about comparing yourself. This is about seeing yourself for who you are and finding excitement, contentedness, courage, strength, confidence, and joy in it. Finding all of that in who you are.
