Weeks of Gratitude.

Weeks of Gratitude

Being inspired by my recent read of "The Happiness Project", I started wishing that I could be more appreciative of the life I have, being a little more positive towards life and definitely hoping that the people around me are happier.

Even me.

 

This is a great book.

Tons of ways on how Gretchen Rubin took on to make her life a happier one, including the ones around her.

I decided to take upon one of her methods, showing gratitude for my daily life.

I can't promise to commit posting up a gratitude everyday in my life (I mean seriously, sometimes we are too forgetful/occupied/procrastinate to do so)

So making it a weekly commitment might be a better way for me to stay on track and focused.

 

Today, I begin with Week 1 of my gratitude towards life.

 

Family.

 

My friends know how family-oriented of a person I am. They are like my priorities.

Somehow, even the slightest change or things that affects their mood, indirectly affects me.

Yes, indeed high level of sensitivity.

My colleague and I spoke today and we mentioned how time flies past at a blink of an eye.

As we grew up from kids without worrying about anything (except homework), to how we started worrying about bills, relationships, future, work and money etc.

To think that we have come and grown a long way, have we ever looked around at the people around us?

How fast they might have grown or aged,

improving or deteriorating health condition(touch wood of course)

happy or unhappy,

living well or not?

 

There are so many factors that we could probably probe them about, even just a simple "Hey, how have you been doing?" would be a great comforting sentence to the opposite party.

Just like how a simple WhatsApp message that I sent to a friend of mine today, and she was really glad that I checked up on her often despite us not meeting for months.

How grateful and happy I felt upon seeing her reply.

This made me realized the importance of "Keeping in contact."

 

I recently met up with a few of my really close primary and secondary school friends, and each meet-ups with them definitely made me felt like I time-travelled back to my younger days.

Likewise with my family, I felt like I am the youngest whenever we have family gatherings, and everyone would be calling my "cynnie" (my nickname).

It just makes you delighted that they call you with nicknames which makes the relationship even closer than before.

 

As the days continue , I appreciate more and more of the time I have with my family and the people around me.

I want to create more memories with them, spend more moments, and definitely taking snapshots of these memories to remind myself "Yes, this did happen!"

Photos do miracles at occasions.

So please say "Yes, to photos, even food photography to document your life."
:D

Thank you to my family for always being there for me during my ups and lows, how far I have come so far was simply amazing.
And I am grateful to be a 21 young teen now, being able to handle my own issues and work.
No doubt there are times that I will beat myself up over things that I have done, but over time, I guess I really should forget about it and simply just move on.
Because life leaves no time for us to think about all the regrets in life.
So why not, live our life to the fullest, enjoy and embrace what we have now?

What will come, will come.
No matter how many twists and turns that we make to avoid it, if it is meant to be, it is meant to be.
Stay happy, stay grateful,
& our lives will be much more beautiful.

goodbye,
cynnieco.