Gratitude

I wanted to blog about this for so long, but procrastination always gets the better of me. But, nonetheless, I realised that if you want something hard enough, it is bound to happen, somewhere, some ways, somehow.

It's so important to have a sense of gratitude. It makes one more appreciative about the surrounding. It's so easy to slip into self-pity every now and then. Whenever things goes bad, or when situations get tough for us to carry on, we will start to feel that life is unfair, and that some other people just got it going easier than ourselves. Well, I used to think this way all the time. But all those times that I was 'hanging-on' it seemed like such a struggle, I was merely putting on a false front, hanging on the pretended optimism for dear life, little did I know, so long as I don't learn to enjoy the process of hardship, it will hardly change for the better.

Now, as I start to get acquainted with more people, I start to understand how having a sense of gratitude helps me get better and learn more, at the same time, being able to smile from the bottom of my heart. As I'm writing this, I have a warm fuzzy feeling from within. I'm most grateful to people who were around me during my worst times, and still stayed on till now, my ideology might sometimes be unrealistic and far-fetched, but their encouragement never failed to surround me. They will show me care and concern, they will be tactful to tell me something I insisted on doing might not be the best decisions. They will be relieved when things go better for me, they will show me grimace of agony when things took a turn for worse for me. These are the people who truly cared.
Not only that, I'm grateful for things that happened to me, I wouldn't exactly say I'm a good person, but all those circumstances that occurred around me, situations that happened to me, definitely molded me more and more into the kind of person I desired to become. Of course, this process still has a long way to go, however I just want to express this gratitude at this point of time.

How about you? When was the last time you were grateful for something or toward someone, and expressed this gratitude?