This year, my gratitude is abundant! I am so happy that we set aside one day each year to just be grateful. What a perfect time to surround yourself with love and happiness.
My wish for you today is that your food is abundant, your family is tolerable, your football team wins, clean-up is a breeze, you reply to every comment in the language of Happiness (it helps to change the subject to the person making the comment — in the friendliest way…), and that the joy you feel today carries you through the rest of the season and into 2014.
Happy Thanksgiving! And Happy Every Other Day as well! Life is good, and for that, I am very, very thankful.
The list of things to be grateful for is long – and the other list is short: why does the second get too much attention?
It is natural to deal with the things that raise their heads and cause trouble – but they can take over way too quickly if we let them. It takes constant vigilance to stay happier, but it’s always worth the effort.
And happy people have an easier time dealing with problems because depression over the bad only adds to the inability to deal.
I think that’s my biggest insight over the years: your own attitude doesn’t necessarily change your problems, but it puts you in a better place to deal with them – and for that I am truly grateful.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Alicia