Do You Complain about Life a Lot? Try Focusing on Gratitude. Here Are 7 Things Most of Us Can Be Grateful For

1. You’re Alive

This might seem cliché, but when was the last time you genuinely gave thanks for the gift of life? Just in case you need the reminder, we are conscious beings inhabiting a vehicle of meat and bones that already has and will continue to experience an assortment of things in this life.

We have emotions, can interact and connect with other living beings, possess our own set of skills and talents, and have all had a completely unique human experience thus far. If that’s not something to be grateful for and love about life, then I don’t know what is.

While hardship may not be easy to endure while it’s happening, the fact that you are still here to read this article suggests that you made it through. You not only survived those moments when your shit seemed to hit the proverbial fan, but you’re also stronger (whether or not you choose to recognize that) because of them.

Love the fact that you are a warrior who has persisted through everything life has thrown your way, and focus on feeling grateful for how your character developed as a result.

I don’t need to sell you on how great laughter is, and I don’t care how challenging your life has been thus far — we’ve all experienced a number of moments where we could not be paid to stop laughing.

I’m referring to those moments where your eyes watered up and the muscles in your cheeks and stomach hurt from how hard you were cracking up. The fact that you are capable of experiencing that much joy and are going to experience it again is a pretty great aspect of life to love.

The internet is undoubtedly a double-edged sword. On one side, it provides a platform to far too many people whose toxic intentions should never have been given greater voice, while on the other, it offers us all a medium to connect with one another like never before.

With just a mouse click and a few strokes on our keyboard we can connect to hundreds if not thousands of people, all while accessing a database that is now pretty well endlessly filled with content on virtually every subject. If that isn’t enough, the ways in which we can connect today are already mind-blowing, yet we all know that what’s available 10 years from now will make modern technology seem archaic.

Whether it was the birth of your child, the day you graduated from school, or the moment you mustered up the courage to ask your significant other out on a date, we all have certain memories that stand out more than others.

The reason these moments stand on a mental pedestal is because they offered an experience that was far more memorable than the likely mundane nature of your daily life. The fact that these greatest moments (no matter what they are to you) are a part of your life story thus far is definitely something to love and appreciate.

Let me start by clarifying that I am not solely referring to romantic relationships, but rather, our ability to forge relationships with one another as a whole. Whether they be familial, friendly, or romantic, our interactions with other people are an easy thing to love about life.

We have the ability to open up to others, to learn from their experiences, and to evoke emotions in one another among a gamut of other things that make life that much more interesting. Yes, relationships can be painful or heartbreaking at times, but they can also be fun and exciting, and regardless of how they end, they always enrich your life in some way.

There are few things I love in this world more than my imagination. Not only has it been the source of so many great ideas that have now been made into a reality, but it has also allowed me to conceptualize so many things I’ll never consciously get the time to do.

Our conscious human experience is already so vast; the fact that it also comes with the ability to mentally forge entire worlds is like icing on the cake. While your imagination may have gotten you into trouble on a few occasions, you can still choose to love your access to it and all of the good it has done for you, too.

Writer, Vlogger, Entrepreneur & Creator of The Hack Anxiety Toolbox an online course designed to help you become anxiety free for good! — CE contributor since 2010 as a Writer, Director & Admin. — You can find out more about me and my other passions in life by visiting my personal website: www.mark-denicola.com. — You can also follow all of my work on Facebookand Instagram!
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