First off, thank you for clicking on my blog post and reading this. It means a lot!
I wanna talk about gratitude. Working in customer service, I encounter a lot of ungrateful and entitled people. They rant and scream about a $10 additional shipping charge on a $700 custom closet order, and usually are more rude than in person because they are behind a phone.
I want to remind so many to pause and be thankful that they can even afford a $700 custom closet. I have wanted to say, “I get that you’re frustrated but this is the epitome of a first world problem, deal with it” so many times and just hang up. But nah, that would get me fired. Gratitude is my favorite exercise to practice because you can’t have a bad day if you are grateful for everything. It’s impossible. It’s so easy to practice yet so so difficult to consistently do and truly mean it. You can simply look down at your hands and feet and think, thank you God for the ability to walk and run and work with my hands, play tennis, go wherever I want to whenever I want to. Thank you for the ability to see, to take deep breaths. Thank you for the cold, windy, rainy weather—it makes me appreciate the sunshine. Thank you for a mother and father, a family that loves me, a friend that has been there through thick and thin. Even those with disabilities or chronic illness can say thank you, even though that sounds harsh. They can thank God for the opportunity to be an inspiration and for making them a tougher, more resilient person.
Gratitude will reset your attitude for the day, and put things in perspective. Two of the best Christmas movies ever—It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol—both center around men who grow entitled and start assuming that the world owes them something, only to be stripped of everything and humbled. It’s only after they had nothing that they realized that their lives they had were pretty freakin’ awesome.
When we realize that we could have nothing, and really imagine having absolutely nothing, it will make even the smallest things we have gigantic blessings.
I’m not saying that I never complain, but I’m moving towards being grateful for everything in my life. Gratitude takes humility, self-awareness, thoughtfulness, and will definitely make you more WOKE… 2019 will be a hell of a year if people say thank you more and complain less. Thanks for reading!
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