Hello Beauriful people! (we have got to come up with a name for this community o! Lol). I hope ya'll blessed and highly favoured? I hope you're masking up and sanitizing judiciously? I hope you haven't forgotten what g4 tastes like too? 😅🤣
You know how I've been letting good friends, my buddies of this coconut head generation share life experiences and lessons with you right? So we can all grow together because iron sharpeneth iron.
We haven't come to give you gist today, instead, we thought to share our lessons on GRATITUDE. It's funny how everyone can talk about this extensively but we all still trivialize it because... *I/it would have been better/easier if I just had that...* you know! I hope you learn form this experience.
*‘Dekunle Falade*
Other than I have multiple degrees in philosophy, my life has become a testing ground to pragmatise all the philosophical theories I've learnt. For instance, a normal person starts a new year article with lessons from previous years and the goals to be achieved in the new year. Normal person is not me, and I am not normal. Normalcy in this sense is not defined in the context of sanity or the lack of it. Normalcy in this sense is just being odd and not following structured principles.
I don't want to toss a red herring from the topic at hand.
I have found out that we always cry and moan about the things we don't have and lose focus on the things that are present ( in your possession, right in front of you, you get it?!). I mean, we are less thankful for what we have because we are too over engrossed with what we desire but don't have yet. Understandably, human needs are insatiable and we are far worse than Oliver Twist! We lose the joy of what we have and create sadness for ourselves just because we are too focused on the things we lack. Do you need an example? Here is one; last year, I whimpered so much about my lack of a laptop. I was too sad that I didn't have a laptop to do my work. What is the work? Writing. However, I forgot the gift (having great ideas to write about, and the ability to write it) that I have because I was busy weeping about something I lack. I didn't write much as I would have wanted.
When we focus on what we don't have, we may lose what we already have. Catch this cruise... "It's like a man that has Ini Edo but is seriously bittered for not having Beyonce. Bee is great and of course, somewhat an upgrade but I want to believe that If I have Ini Edo, I can make her my Beyonce." You get the gist?!
Succinctly, what you have at hand may indeed be far precious than what you don't have yet. It is in human psychology to always want and in fact, want something better. However, while searching for what's better, we should learn how to enjoy and appreciate what's at hand. Our lack is nothing compared to what we have.
If you need a watchword for 2021, here it is; Life won't give you many choices, but one choice that can't be taken away from you is your decision to either appreciate what you have or consistently make yourself unhappy because of what you don't have. You may think you have nothing but you have everything some people want. This is not an excuse to not want something better but it is a call for you to know that you need to be thankful. If 2020 taught me anything, it is that life is transient and ephemeral. Enjoy what you have while you seek for greener pastures.
May the odds be in our favour this year. Ire Ooo!
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