Begin grateful for the things you have in life like your mate or room mates or home or economic security or whatever you have going for you in your life is often the motor of life in your life.
When you are grateful for whatever good is in your life then often more good can come into your life. IF you focus only on what's wrong with your life often you can make things even worse if you do that. So, by thinking about what you have going for you will often increase the good in your lives. Life sort of works in this way I find.
When I was young people were very positive thinking in my parents church. At the time I thought all the positive thinking stuff was kind of phoney as a child and teenager because of course especially from around 13 to 26 or so children tend to be very cynical in order to lessen their pain.
Because children from 12 to 30 tend to die or commit suicide the most around unrealistic expectations so they become cynical in order to try to survive their disappointments in life. Because success often comes only after failing many times.
For most people success doesn't come the first, 2nd or 3rd time out even. It comes whenever it comes.
In life you only have to get just a few things right to have a decent life. But, you cannot give up because if you give up and don't keep going life will eat you up and you will be gone forever. So, being tough enough to pick yourself up and to keep going each day is important in the long run of your lives.
For me, I barely made it from 18 to 25 when I got together with my first wife and had a son. But, somehow I had always wanted to be a father and this helped me move forward in life a lot. It wasn't that I wanted to be married really it was that I wanted to be a father and I found it motivated me to become an entrepreneur and start businesses in order to support first my son and then later my 2 daughters and then my adopted daughter. So, for me, being a father turned me into a full adult in my life. Because before I was 25 I often really didn't care whether I lived or died and this showed in the physical risks I took in life.
When my son was born I gave up rock climbing with 300 to 1000 feet or more exposure in places like Yosemite Valley. I knew I had done the right thing when a friend of mine died free climbing within a year or two of this.
So, gratitude for your friends and family is often the motor of life that keeps you going through anything you have to face in life.
By God's Grace
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