Feeling Grateful

 

Be thankful for the small things in life.
Here's a short list. I'm sure you can think of more.

  • I have enough to eat. In fact, I have a choice of what I want to eat.
    (As many as 828 million people — about 10% of the
    global population — regularly go to bed hungry.)
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  • I am healthy (or at least not a total wreck. Or if a total wreck, well,
      there are lots of people in way worse shape.
    And if not worse shape, well, at least I'm not dead...yet.)
     
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  • I have loving family and/or good friends in my life.
      I am grateful they can depend on me.
     
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  • I do not fear for my life every day (billions of people do.)    
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  • My home has clean, safe water.
      (26% of the world doesn't have access to safe drinking water
    and 46% lack access to basic sanitation.)
     
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  • I have indoor plumbing.
      (I don't have to do my business in an outhouse
    in the wee-wee hours, in the dead of winter
    or shlep heavy jugs of water on my head for miles.)  
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  • I have electricity in my home  
    (775 millions people do not. Not even electric lighting.)
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  • I poop regularly.
      (Or at least I'm not in danger exiting like Elvis.)
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    https://www.mindful.org/feeling-grateful-for-the-small-things/