Attitude of Gratitude

“Thankful am I for the colours around me,

The bright rising Sun is my Happiness Key,

Joyous am I when I am around this beautiful Nature,

Peace sinks in and here I completely set myself free.”

Attitude as defined by most of the existing dictionaries refers to “a settled way of thinking or feeling about something”. Now where is this settled thought or belief getting generated? It is certainly within our own minds and sub-conscious being. As our body grows and develops in proportion and response to what we feed it, our mental abilities and thoughts grow in response to what we feed in it through our perceptions, thoughts and external signals.

World has become more restless and temperaments are high – And WE constitute the world.

If we say that things are changing, people are changing, relationships are changing – we mostly refer to our (including own and the environment) beliefs and thoughts that are getting altered. Our ‘Attitude’ is the essence here as it guides us and monitors our responses to various cues that we come across in our day to day lives. Somewhere we have become more of complainants leading to negative emotions getting generated with high frequency. It is easier to find negative connotations attached to any event than to dig out the positive intention behind it. By doing this, we are becoming our own enemies in a way as we are feeding filth to our own brain which is the most powerful machine for any existing individual.

Minds need a DIET plan more than our bodies do because body follows orders of our minds. It is difficult to clean the river if the source of water flow coming to it, itself pushes garbage into it.

On one fine day, I heard an old man sitting in a park talk to himself (or the Lord) “When will I get rid of these pain; old age added with body pain and ailments is just like hell for me”. The very next moment there came a toddler who threw his arms around this old man and chuckled. The poor man, however, was still in the complaint zone and half-heartedly hugged the child back. I was wondering when pain can get so much of acknowledgement, why can the innocent joy that the child expressed upon meeting this old man, not be appreciated in a similar fashion.

‘Attitude of Gratitude’ is what we need to develop. How many times do we thank a waiter after he has served us? However if he delays the order or spills a drink over us, we instantly act to show discomfort. How many times do we thank the police man standing at traffic signal controlling the crowd in the rains or the hot sunny day? We are, however, very prompt in complaining if the traffic gets a bit unorganized due to his inability to manage some undisciplined drivers. Most importantly, how often do we thank our own selves for making us whatever we are today? We are, but, very active in complaining against what we are not and have loads of justifications attached.

All that this write up is meant for is that ‘Gratitude’ is a beautiful word. Once we start practising it with our own selves and with people around us, we can generate great levels of positivity around us.

‘Attitude of Gratitude’ is a must try to make this world beautiful!

With this, I thank you for sparing your precious moments in going through my thoughts here!

Keep Shining!! J J