This is the last post in my Month of Gratitude. I have loved the idea of this keeping me accountable to myself to actually post and I feel a great sense of achievement for the fact that I actually got the full 31 posts up – not all in time, but I’m not worrying about that – life gets in the way and instead of letting it get me down I am looking at the positive side of the fact I did get so many up in time!
- My Husband
- My Children
- My Step-Children
- My Step-Grandchildren
- My Family
- My Friends
- My Home
- Our Utilities
- Our Health
- Education
- Coffee
- Technology
- Being Alive
- Baby Smiles and Laughs
- Special Occasions
- Healthcare
- Being Irish
- Being a SAHM
- Chocolate
- Books
- Online Recipes
- Sunshine
- Online Shopping
- Grandparents
- Sleep
- Podcasts
- Support
- Community
- Handy-man Skills
- Having More Than Enough
- Being Grateful
Possibly sounds like a silly one.
I am grateful for being grateful.
But this is one thing that I love about myself. I can see so much to be grateful for, in my life and all around us. In general I see the silver lining of things, and when something horrible happens I tend to automatically reply with a “At least…. insert silver lining…”.
A few years ago a very close friend was going through her divorce, and I can’t remember how it came up but she said “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the positives” – my at leasts, or looking at it from another angle, weren’t helping – she didn’t want to hear it, and so it made me realise people didn’t want the silver lining or alternative view, so I tried to tone it back. Purposely tried to not say positive things when someone was upset. It was hard! I do understand when you’re going through a crap time you don’t want to hear an annoying upbeat person saying its not so bad, you just want them to empathise with how crap it is. But the whole situation made me second guess myself, and I still do now. I said it to my husband the other day, I think that friend broke “Positive Me” lol.
But it is my automatic default in my head to look at the silver lining and the positive out of the situation. Particularly for other people. I do find it harder for myself, I tend to beat myself up more. Again though, think that is natural!
I see how much I have in life to be grateful for, I am grateful for everything that I do have and I feel so so lucky to have so much in my life and to be so lucky to have this life. I know how much I have to be grateful for, and I am grateful for everything I have. I am grateful for having this outlook and for realising how much there is to be grateful for. This is something that I want to instill in my children, it is so important to be grateful in life for everything that you do have.
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