Sunday, May 18, 2008

Why it is important to develop an attitude of gratitude

My personal experience is that how much ever we do for others, they will always find something amiss. People find reasons and shortcomings in whatever others do. I sitting at my computer; there are sounds falling on my ears. A close relative is cribbing and finding fault in something around. I am surprised and slightly hurt, because I always thought this person is not capable of cribbing. We all keep hearing such things around us all the time...at home...at work...in the train...in the bus.....

Parents get upset with children
Children find excuses to crib about their parents
Husbands find reasons to wish they had married someone else
And wives are always working to mend their husbands ways!!!
Bosses are unhappy with subordinates and
Subordinates keep changing jobs to find better bosses!
Houses are not good
Cities are bad and polluted
The government is bad and so are ministers....it is a non ending vicious cycle of cribbing!!!!

Human nature has undergone such a drastic transformation. We have become constant cribbers. While the fact remains that form morning to night, day after day, year after year....we are all working for our families! Families make the society and all the good or the bad we do is going back to the society. The what are we cribbing about...

Parents have no time for children
Children miss out on parental love
Husbands are busy increasing bank balances
Wives are busy blowing away the money
Bosses want quick results
Subordinates want quick growth
There is no time to spend at home
We litter our cities and spread pollution
Educated people do not vote and bad governments are brought to power by the illiterate....so whom are we blaming?

We are all 'giving' and we are all 'receiving' from morning to night.....day after day...week after week...year after year of our lives.....why cribbing? Why not express our gratitude to everyone who is working to sustain our life in his world?

If only ......

Parents praise their children more often and encourage them
Children are more grateful to their parents for giving them life and living
Husbands thank their wives for feeding them and taking care of their overall well being and loving
Wives start praising their husbands more often and thanking them for all that they do for the family
Bosses praise their subordinates and encourage and motivate them to do better
Subordinates respect their bosses and try to learn from them
Houses are treated as homes where the heart is
Cities are treated as our own home and kept clean and green.
The government is appreciated because it is trying to do its best....
Well the corrupt minister's must be however be sacked!!!


If only we all develop and attitude of gratitude...life will be so much lighter and brighter