What are you thankful for?

[RosinaKiwi]

So I was watching this video

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBoaOYNvh0

 

and It really made me think how much im lucky with my lot in life!

 

in this thread share what is cool to you? what you are lucky to have?

I am lucky because.............

 

I am lucky because I have friends

Im lucky because I have a computer and found the mfc

I am lucky because I am happy

I am lucky because I can walk/see/hear/taste/eat!

[Mika Freaka =)]

This is a really good thread to start coz it makes you think of how lucky you are!

 

im thankful for:

 

1. having both parents alive

2. having an education

3. having shelter, clothes, food etc

4. having the people around who love me

5. finding Mika lol and MFC

6. having al my senses (sight, hearing, vision(ok not perfect vision but still) etc)

7. not being born with major defects

8. having healthy sisters

9. .............. ok well its obvious i have a lot to be thankful for

[RosinaKiwi]

This is a really good thread to start coz it makes you think of how lucky you are!

 

im thankful for:

 

1. having both parents alive

2. having an education

3. having shelter, clothes, food etc

4. having the people around who love me

5. finding Mika lol and MFC

6. having al my senses (sight, hearing, vision(ok not perfect vision but still) etc)

7. not being born with major defects

8. having healthy sisters

9. .............. ok well its obvious i have a lot to be thankful for

 

yesss!

 

although I often complain about my sister...I love her to bits...I am lucky that I have my sister and both parents still alive!

I am lucky to be alive myself

I am lucky I have an education

[Mika Freaka =)]

yesss!

 

although I often complain about my sister...I love her to bits...I am lucky that I have my sister and both parents still alive!

I am lucky to be alive myself

I am lucky I have an education

 

:roftl: i often get so mad at my sisters i think i might kill them! ok i wont ever really kill them! lo

[HollyD]

M I K A

[themetalmunchkin]

I am lucky that the dr's where able to save my life when i was born(prem)

I am lucky to have my wonderful family and freinds

I'm lucky becouse i was able to have an education and achieve something in my life

I'm thankful that i can be who i wont to be

[racinghorse83]

i have so much to be thankful for like a great family, brothers, sisters, my friends, my computer, my job, my horse, my car (even tho it doesnt go) my band... and i still whine and whine

 

you have to work so hard to get where you want but its so worth it =)

[Mika Freaka =)]

i got this in an email

 

One often takes things for granted - and sometimes we all need some

direction or a new

perspective of life to realize it could be worse.

 

After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite having

to work 2 jobs that

bring in approximately R2500 per month, he's quite happy.

 

I wondered how anyone could be happy considering he has to skimp with

everything

because of his low pay. He's supporting his parents, his in-laws, his

wife, 2 daughters and

the many bills his large household accrues.

 

He explained that his reasoning was caused by one incident that he'd

seen in India .. It

happened a couple of years before he'd married when he was feeling very

low, after a

major setback, while touring India ..

 

He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother

chop off her child's

right hand. The hopelessness in the mother's eyes, the scream of pain

from the innocent

4-year-old has haunted him, ever since. You may ask why the mother did

so. Had the

child been naughty?

 

Had the child's hand been infected? No, it was done for two simple words

"TO BEG"!!!

 

The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so

that the child

could go out to the streets to beg.

 

Taken back by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating and

almost

instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece

of bread, covered

with sand, robbing bits from one another.

 

How could hunger and desperation be allowed to fester like this?

Stricken by the

happenings, he instructed his guide to get a truck and to drive him to

the nearest bakery.

He went to two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found.

The owners were

dumbfounded but willingly sold everything. He spent less than R200 to

obtain about 400

loaves of bread this is less than R0.50 per loaf and then spent about

R100 to get other

daily necessities.

 

Off he went with his bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread

and necessities to

the children and adults (mostly handicapped) he received cheers and

bows. For the first

time in his life he wondered how people would do almost anything for a

loaf of bread which

cost less than 50 CENTS.

 

He began to tell himself how fortunate he was. How fortunate he is to be

able to have a

complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to complain

about what food is

good and what isn't, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things

that these

people in front of him are deprived of..... .

 

Now I began to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad?

Perhaps... not, should I feel bad all the time? What about you? Maybe

the next time you

think it couldn't be worse, think about the child who lost one hand to

beg on the streets.

 

"Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want; it's the

realization of how much you

already have." When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but

often times we look

so long at the closed door that we don't see the next that has been

opened for us.

 

It's so very true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it.

But it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it

arrives. The happiest

of people don't necessarily have the best of everything.

 

They just make the most of everything that comes their way. The

brightest future will

always be based on a forgotten past, you can't be your best until you

let go of your past

failures and heartaches.