SHOWING GRATITUDE FOR EVERYTHING

It's just just five months to the end of the year, meaning seven months has passed by. They're lots of things and bunch of reasons to be grateful for the little things of life 🧬.

Well, I'd be sharing some of the things am grateful for the past seven months of this year.

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THE GIFT OF LIFE

The gift of life is underrated, sleeping and waking up every single day in good health and good body condition, is something every living thing should be grateful for .

I could remember how i started this year, i was really really broke, like i didn't have money anyway, home and abroad, i was just empty. I prayed to God to help me out of that situation, for me it seems he was not answering my prayers.

I'd always compare myself with my mates that are doing better than i am, then I'd start feeling bad and uncontented of the little things I have.

This thinking brought down myself esteem, i just didn't have confidence in myself anymore, i just felt like a losser. Every night, I'd wet my pillow with my tears. I was just a young frustrated lady.

When I couldn't keep it to myself anymore, i decided to talk to someone. I spoke to a matured friend of mine about my situation, she cheered me up and she gave me some advice 👇

• always stay happy regardless of the condition i find myself.
• Never compare yourself to other people .
• When ever you pray, calm down and see how God would answer those prayers, because he answers prayers in different ways we can't imagine.
• Always appreciate the gift of life, sleeping and waking up everyday is a miracle from God, it's something money cannot buy.

With these encouraging words of her's, i found hope in myself again, i stopped looking down on myself. Then i implemented her wise words, i started seeing a lot of things to be grateful for, regardless of how small they are.

GOOD HEALTH

Looking at the world today, nobody has 100% good health.
But most people have a very good health to a reasonable percentage, GOOD HEALTH is something money cannot buy.

A lot of rich people are in the hospital, while there's millions of money in their account, but it couldn't buy the good health . You see how precious health is, money can't buy it, unlike precious stones like, Diamond 💎, Gold 🪙, sliver money can, it's not compared to having a good health.

Few months ago, my aunt wasn't feeling well, she was admitted in the hospital . The hospital was a general hospital, my dad and some relatives went, there to check up on her, there were lots of people in the hospital, with different conditions and sickness, it was so bad to the extent that, there was no bed to admit incoming patients, my dad was so surprised, he even saw a man taking drip on a plastic chair. Now the saying that goes HEALTH IS WEALTH kept ringing in my head.

When he told me what he saw at the hospital, my jaw dropped, i never knew a lot of people have really struggling health issues, here i am complaining and comparing myself with the same rich , where by my own health is better than them.

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FOOD

We all know the economy system in Africa is really bad, especially in Nigeria. It's really difficult to eat three square meals in a day, a lot of people have reportedly died of hunger.

Few weeks ago, when I was heading out to get something across the street, i saw some people gathered in a particular spot, and powering water on a man. I drew closer to the crowd out of curiosity, i wanted to know what was going on.

Then I asked a woman close to where I was standing, not until she said the man they're powering water, fainted on the main road 🛣️. After a while the crowd settled down and the noise reduced, someone amongst the crowd was bold enough to confront the man, asking him if he was previously sick, not until he opened up saying he hasn't eaten for the past two days and his body was just so weak to move.
Someone volunteered to buy food for him in the nearby canteen.

Then I said to myself "i am very ungrateful", every single day i always have what to eat, what to wear, good health and a good apartment to sleep, mean while a lot of people out there don't have these privileges . These are more than enough reasons why I should be grateful.

So, dearies always be contented for the little things, always be grateful, never compare yourself with other people. Never feel bad for yourself, these would only ruin your self esteem, you're special and also a rare gem, so priceless that money can't buy ❤️.

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