Gratefulness is Underrated and Here is Why!!!

in #mindset6 years ago

Hi, Steemians!

A lot of people strip their lives of the conscious ‘choice’ to be happy and feel gratefulness for small or great things that they have.

Gratefulness is the greatest ability one can master in this limited lifetime, but it is often underrated and not talked about enough. Not nearly enough.

Most people even find it offensive when other people advise them to seek tranquility under the wings of appreciation for the life that they are already living.

By contentment with everything they have, and with the knowledge that a bright future awaits those who have the courage to reach out for it.


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A little bit of appreciation can go a long way, apparently. \

Our lives are so intermingled with madness and chaos that we rarely find time or energy to appreciate the small everyday ordinary deeds or occurrences that we would otherwise, in an ideal life, savor.

Our negligence towards cherishing the little smile that our friend gave us, the way a rainy day made us feel delight and emptiness at the same time, how our mother’s food tasted in our mouth and the flavors danced in a wondrous pattern, how amazing it felt to wake up by the side of someone you love more than anything in the world, and all the other small sensations of life, will ultimately prove to be our greatest mistake and shortcoming.

We do not appreciate these blessings, because we are afraid of what that might mean for us and our future.


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Some people mistake gratefulness with immobility. They believe that if they gave themselves the chance to appreciate life, they would start to lose focus and sight of what they should do to accomplish great things.

They tend to see life as an ever-raging battle that needs to be fought with the utmost attention and fervency.

These people go so far as to see ungratefulness as a sign of heroism and bravery against the face of the relentless life and all its endless difficulties.

You do not lose sight of what you must do or how well you have to perform by being grateful for everything that you have. Because that is, by its nature, an unfounded fear and illogical dread.


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The state of our mental health and our happiness has nothing to do with our sense of judgement regarding the so-called terrible state of the world.

We already know that life is difficult, and we know that in order to achieve our dreams, we need to be willing to go through with our plans, come hell or high water, and take steps towards our goals.

We already know that life can be tragic, and the feeling of sadness, despair, loss, and insecurity will always inflict themselves onto us.

But despite this knowledge, we choose to see the things that are worth fighting for. The things that we wake up everyday to protect. We then decide to be appreciative of their mere existence.

We might even start to feel happy or content with what we see before our eyes, but that does not mean that we have lost perspective. It only means that we understand what it is that we are fighting for.


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A person who doesn’t know what he is fighting to preserve will eventually lose his path and find himself in a dark pit of despair.

And as you know, despair is for those who know, beyond any doubt, what the future will bring. None of us are in such position as to foresee the infinite comings and goings of life.

Start to notice the small and insignificant things that give meaning to your life.

Decide to be grateful for their existence and feel contentment for all the blissful things that you may have in this life for a limited period of time.

A BIG HUG!

@chbartist

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Important Note!

I have been working very hard on this blog since the beginning. I have a very busy life but I am giving my best and believe me I have shared experiences that I have been coaching thousands of people and I know that the change of the Mindset should be daily. I am already grateful to see you giving upvotes to each other and you can see this with the fact that many already have 8, 9, 10 upvotes. But I'm sure that with the effort of all of us we will see a community with, 40, 50 upvotes and for that everyone should get engaged so we can make it come true. I believe and we can! Resteem...

***Remember Community: Please, if you commented and upvote on a new post I did, please always go back to the previous one because if someone in the community commented lastly because of time zone differences it will be without your upvote and that would not be fair.

You all know the goal! We can reach: 50+ Upvotes each others!

Attention!!!

I'm reading all the meaningful comments from the posts.

I am here making a list of all of you who have helped build this community by voting for each other who write meaningful comments and soon I will respond to everyone with comment and thank you all because I can already see this spirit being built in this Positive Mindset community and help between all of you.

You will receive my upvote in all material and brief comments I will do this in all the posts I am following very closely and I can see what the people who are generous and contribute to this legacy that I am trying to build with all of you can become reality in a short time.

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First of all, I would like to thank all of you, who are the most active and proactive in this community, showing your generosity and always with meaningful comments. From now on I will always make a list of these incredible people who have helped to expand our goal of growing ever more.

But I ask that if you are new around here you read many of the previous posts because they make it clear that we are building a community with respect among all, generosity and this blog is for those who really want to start moving their Mindset to positive and moreover be part of the growth of all of us who contribute to this blog. Please do not ask to include you in the list if you are just wanting upvotes because we want here people genuinely attuned to growth and good attitudes and as I have always said with Respect as the basis of all, generosity and positivity!

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Gratefulness brings happiness and be contented with what you have. It will allow you to be always +ve in your life. If you didn't have the habit of being grateful with small things you have no matter, even you achieve big thimgs you can't be grateful with them too. As your mine is not use to it!

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Gratefulness is appreciating others' effort in contributing to your success. Many people don't know how to appreciate things because they think they've done things on their own and living a life of survival not on a mutual relationship with his fellow men. Envy and pride are one of the reasons why gratefulness is underrated in one's life.

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Wow this is very true!, gratefulness we should be much happy for the little thing one does for us and show our acceptance to that offer. It is really very painful to refuse to say thank you or God bless you when someone does something for you. If you always appreciate what people have been doing for you , it is then that they will continue to offer help as they have always being doing.

Excellent review @chbartist and you are right, we all need to be grateful to everything that happens in our life and it can be different things. If we can be grateful for the good, then fate will give us a chance to achieve even more, and we must also be grateful for the bad, because we have done something wrong and fate gives us a chance to understand mistakes, gain experience and eventually correct the situation. Grateful need to be able to always be, because we give good!

The feeling of gratitude does not correspond to one of the basic emotions. Quite the opposite. To experience it requires a series of complex processes in the mind. Not everyone can experience gratitude. It is a virtue reserved for the highest spirits and the best developed intelligences.

Unlike other feelings, that of gratitude does not appear as an impulse simply. Gratitude requires that there be a system of ethical values, where the concepts of giving and receiving are resolved, as well as a renunciation of the egocentric vision of life.

"When gratitude is so absolute, words remain."

-Álvaro Mutis-



Many people learn too late that you do not know what you have until you no longer have it and it demonstrates why being grateful is important. It also enables you to leverage these resources to achieve goals through effort and motivation. If you do not appreciate it, you will surely take it for granted and not foster it to your best ability!

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Dear @chbartist, all your's articles are wonderful and mindful including this one. Thank you for doing a big work and for all that great you doing for us. Brilliant !
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Nobody in the world is perfect, there is no shortage in every person, so that is why we should learn to be contented. It is very satisfying in satisfaction.
Whatever time it has received from God should be thanked and learned to be patient in it.And if we do karma then we will surely get the reward

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You are graceful for something and someone given you are done for you and wish you thank them it is best quality of person I also like graceful person thanks for sharing good blog .

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A little bit of appreciation can go a long way, apparently." You nailed it perfectly!