Other kids were just filling with their usual babbles but what makes this one so close to my mind till now is that she just wrote 2 words in one page - written neatly with colored pen that says 'Give Thanks'.
Back then, I didn't understand...why those words? When others wrote 'good luck' or 'may you be successful', she wrote 'Give Thanks'? Along the years of growing up, leaving teen years, entering adulthood and yeah...getting older now (LOL)...it's been so many years..finally...I understand the true meaning of 'Give Thanks'. (Lambat pick up kan...)
So...the answer was there all along.
To give thanks from the smallest to the biggest things in our lives...because most of the time, we forgot to say 'thank You' for our happiness, and break down and cry when things didn't go in our favor. Or sometimes, we put a condition to achieve happiness, 'I will be happy when...' or 'I will be happy if...'
So who is actually to be blamed for when we are not happy? Not the people or circumstances...but ourselves. When we dwell too much on the things that hurts us, nor make us sad...we forgot that we had many other things to be thankful for, we overlooked that there are many other reasons to be happy.
For the air that we breathe, for friends that we still have with us, for family members that we still have, for the roof above our head, for still having jobs, for still having healthy body, for the tap water that flows, for the food on the table, for the cat that loves us, for being able to speak, to sing, the sun, the rain...etc. Gosh, how many of us even remember to say 'thank you' that we are still able to wake up in the morning!! We are alive, we are given another day to live, to shape our lives and walked in that path. For every obstacles we went through - circumstances to build the positive self image we had today - did it crossed our minds to say 'thank you'?
Now I understand that being grateful, by giving thanks, we realised that there is more to life than the one particular thing we focused on - and when we are thankful, we are happy - because we are rich than what we thought we are, and we began to appreciate all those we had.
It's not happy people who are thankful, it's the thankful people who are happy.
Give thanks.
To that friend who shared those words with me...I would like to say, 'Thank You.' for sharing it with me. It's been years but I do hope someday I can meet you and personally convey my thanks.
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