Gratitude Saved My Life
I've spent most of my teenage and young adult life in perpetual misery. Only seeing what I had lost and what others had that I didn't. I blamed anyone and everyone I could for my life. I didn't see opportunities, just struggles or ways of survival. My relationships with my family, soon to be in laws, my most precious people were something of a thorn on my side. I complained a lot and only saw the negative. My mind became accustomed to it. Before I knew it, I had dug myself an enormous pit of self-pity, with anger and resentment as my companions, and I had no way of getting out. My friends that were still brave enough to love me, would constantly remind me to give myself grace and to be gentle with myself. But all I could see was stagnation and lack. It wasn't until I started a spontaneous gratitude journal, of course, I didn't realise that that was what it was at the time, that I started to truly see the light. I realised that everything that was being preached and...