Grateful Pt. 2

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that you don’t throw all your money away on black Friday. I hope you had a sanguine time with your acquaintances, friends, and family, maybe even your enemies. Before you begin reading this post, I do recommend you read the prerequisite post. In that post, I stated that I don’t want it to be cliche, I restate that for this post as well. Like I did in Miseries Partner Pt. 2, I will go over the things I wish to recant, the things to expand on, and re-expressing the concept.

First I defined grateful. My personal definition for grateful was around the lines of, it’s a show of appreciation, but along with that, it shows a level of understanding and intelligence. To an extent that is true, it takes quite a certain level of pragmatic intellect to consider and think of the things that you have, and then to be appreciative of those things. However, it shows something else, probably the main thing, which I completely missed somehow… humility. I went on a long tangent about arrogance, and one day I should touch on the concept of ego, but humility goes against ego, your intellect is necessary to even think about the things which you should be thankful for, but humility is a trait that is shown from being grateful, it shows that you can be down to Earth, that you can be humble, and that you can capitulate that you are lucky, not everything you should be grateful for is in your life because of you. Show humility, be grateful.

Next, I wrote about things you should be grateful for. I put an order upon the list of things I said to be grateful for. I take that back, there’s no order, you shouldn’t have a list of things to be most grateful for, and least grateful for. Don’t do this, you should be equally grateful for everything. People: your acquaintances, your friends, your family, even your enemies, and haters, be grateful for all of them. Material: the things you have in your life, the objects, the material, money, homes, cars, books, phones, computers, all the tangible things, this is not greed, this is humility, to be grateful for the things you have, instead of sulking over what you don’t have. Situation: the things you have gone through, and are going through, it may be positive, it may be negative, but the fact that you are alive and are even able to go through it, that’s something to be grateful for, and also, maintain perspective, remember, it could always be worse. Lastly, self: be grateful for yourself, the person you are, the traits you have, your physical, mental, and spiritual self, be grateful for all of it, you are lucky to have all the things you have, if you are able to read and understand this post, you should be grateful, if you have the ability to see this post you have something to be grateful for, not just your luck, but the skills I know you have. Be grateful for everything, and as I said in the last post, be grateful for the things you don’t know you have, things go over our heads, we can’t always think of everything we may take for granted, because it’s true, you don’t know what you have until you lose it.

The last thing to touch on is the fact that Thanksgiving is not simply a day to be thankful, it is a reminder to be thankful. It is not a single day to be thankful over the 365.25 days of the year, it’s just a reminder to be grateful for the other 364.25 days of the year. Over-all that’s the concept I wrote about last year, I do, however, wish to say, I spoke extremely viscerally last year. I hope this post is more pragmatic and hits more than simple pathos. Which is just a reminder, there’s nothing wrong to look back on your past self and think, “I was stupid.” It shows that you’ve evolved, that you’ve grown. That’s also something to be grateful for.

I don’t doubt that you’re a grateful person if you’re reading the blog post of a sixteen-year-old teenager that doesn’t know anything about anything—no matter how much I act like I know stuff—you’re probably a fairly humble person that believes that they have more to learn, from the experiences, and perspective of others and I commend you for that. Hopefully, this part 2 was just as satiating as the last, and I hope to do more. Thanks again for reading, I appreciate you, I’ll see you next week, have an amazing one, peace. Original

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