Back to Being Thankful
Every morning, I woke up with the sound
of buzzing alarm songs. As I dragged myself out of the bed with my closed eyes,
I wondered what if I had 3 more minutes to sleep in the bed. With my roommates,
we went out for a morning exercise, feeling the breeze passing through us.
Then, I wondered again, what if there was neither breeze nor wind that could
wake us up in the morning. After jogging the long course in school, we headed
to the cafeteria to have some breakfast. As we sat together to have our
breakfast, we started to chat actively about lots of things such as: how awful
and dreadful to take calculus class on 5th period, how handsome 박서준(Korean actor) is, how much I hope to pass the swimming test and
etc.
I believe there are lots of benefits of being
grateful. Being grateful helps me to be in the present by noticing what I have
and stopping to acknowledge it. This can be the community of a person, having food,
or even being able to see. Also being grateful has the power to change my mood
almost instantly from negative to positive. Good feelings and positive energy
arise when I start acknowledging what I am grateful for.
I heard that the first seventeen
seconds of any thoughts are the most powerful, and they create enough energy to
start attracting what I am thinking of into my life. I can see the importance
of being grateful when I realize that I can use thankful feelings to achieve
what I desire. Even if I am feeling negative when I start looking at what I am grateful
for, all of my negative emotions run away. I can make being grateful one of my
positive habits as I understand the importance of being grateful. I can also
choose to write a list of at least ten things I am grateful for at the end of my
day. This will put me in a good mood before going to sleep and will help me to
welcome the next day with an open and grateful attitude. I remembered one
saying by Oprah Winfrey "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up
having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever
have enough."
Acknowledging the importance of trivial daily
things, I went to my comfy bed and stared out of the windows. Lots of sparkling
stars were shining in the field of darkness. I wondered again ‘What if those
stars didn’t even exist? Or What if those stars disappear at once and I lose
the only hopes and comforts when my heart got heavy with no reasons?’ My
roommates and I then turned off the lights and whispered each other’s good
nights and fell into each dream. I closed my eyes, smiling and my heart was
abounding with happiness, being grateful that I always had such precious
friends beside me.
