We are always told to appreciate what we have. We are always told that we don’t realize how fortunate we really are. But despite hearing it repeatedly, we still find ourselves overlooking the things we should be grateful for. Let’s face it: no one in this world has ever lived a day where they don’t take something for granted. Sometimes we have to experience or witness the extreme in order to feel thankful. Sometimes just one experience can change your perspective of life. For me, it took a blow to the face and months out of a sport to make me stop and appreciate my everyday life. I used to do gymnastics, but was eventually forced to quit due to multiple injuries that, despite one being career-ending, were meaningful learning experiences. One of these incidents occurred in October 2016. I was at gymnastics practice on a Thursday night. However, this was no ordinary practice. My coach was out sick, so we had a different coach fill in. This …show more content…
That however, is not even the worst part. The recovery is what makes this experience a meaningful life lesson. I had to follow certain rules in order to keep the stitches in, and my lip in one. When I spoke to people, I sounded like I wasn’t moving my lips. Not because I was advised not to move them, but because I physically couldn’t speak normally. When someone said something humorous, I couldn’t smile nor laugh, or else I would risk stretching out the stitches and ripping my lip apart again. Eating was quite an experience as well. I couldn’t drink out of a bottle without a straw, I couldn’t wrap my lips around a spoon, and I had to eat with my hand over my mouth because I physically could not chew with my mouth closed. Not fun. Not to mention that my bottom lip swelled so much that it was approximately ten times larger than my top lip. It looked like an episode of Botched! However, although these incidents were ridiculous and a bit amusing, they also taught me a very significant
Gratitude is a gift that the earth urgently needs. Consistent gratitude is a form of recognition of the gift and the giver. Daily gratitude can help eliminate the need for more and practicing more of only what we need. Gratitude leads to a society of contentment rather than one that's always in need of more. We human individuals have conventions for appreciation; we apply them formally to each other. We say thank you. “We understand that receiving a gift
Every day I see my family and friends. Whether it’s at home, school, or at an event I always expect them to be there. I can never picture a time when they haven’t been there, so I never think “what if they aren’t there”. I have never realized how blessed I am to have my family and friends still here with me. It seems as though I have underappreciated their existence. After reading Into Thin Air, I viewed my family and friends in a whole new perspective and I learned that I should appreciate them for what they are worth; you never know when they can be taken away from you.
“If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it's passed”-(kanye west).
I am grateful that I have a loving family and live in a good country. The only real adversities I’ve had to go through are financial issues in the family an...
Are you constantly struggling with life? If so, you might be focusing on the wrong things. Practicing daily gratitude will help you turn your life around. Want what you have and what you want will come to you!
It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don 't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself until I was faced with the shock of my aunt’s death. I don 't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. The lesson I can learn from this is to live everyday intentionally and purposely.
“If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us thinks we’d be happy with more?”(Anonymous) In the story “The House on Mango Street¨, the author Sandra Cisneros writes about a girl named Esperanza who doesn’t feel grateful for what she has and uses that to have a negative outlook on life. The story portrays a theme of sometimes people may not always be grateful for what they have, but it’s what makes them who they are.
If something breaks we don’t just go buy a new one, we fix it until it meets our standards and then some. This is a big difference between my culture and my society because it seems that if something breaks on someone they just throw it away and then go get a new one, no matter what it is. In my culture we can’t always do that and i think not always having that option to just go buy something if it breaks makes us a lot more thankful for something when it is in working order. In this society people are not always thankful for what they have which is really sad if you think about it because people should be thankful for what they have no matter who or what it might
My journey of the process started with the PPI “Expressing Gratitude”. The task instructed to write down five things one is thankful for, each day, for a week. Wooh, Froh & Gerahty (2010) defined gratitude as a habit of noticing and being aw...
I am grateful enough for everything that I get. My life would still be the same if I didn't see all of the things that I saw. I would probably be in the mindstate that I was in before thinking that a house and living on minimum wage is easy. This is what life would be like if I didn't see what I
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on”- Robert Frost. Numerous might say a teenager won’t have many personal experiences, but I don’t see that to be true. Experiences don’t have to be an event that stands out to anyone else but yourself. As a golfer, I enjoy being on the golf course as much as possible, so therefore I applied at Edgewood country club golf course as a summer helper. With a few connections I felt extra confident and was ready for my interview. Rapidly I was hired and trained the same day. First, multiple of summers ago I was hired on as full time summer help at the Edgewood country club golf course. At the course I suffered exhausting days such as 7:00am to occasionally 10:00pm depending on
For the purpose of this paper I will be describing a personal life experience and I will be applying concepts from the texts to best describe the event. I was born here in the United States (US) but, I was raised in the Dominican Republic (DR). I lived in the DR basically my entire life, I would only come to the US for vacation during summer. It was not until I turned 12 that I decided to move back to the US to continue my studies and learn the language. So I did, I moved with my uncle and his wife on the summer of 2009. At the time, they resided in the Mayfair area of Philadelphia, PA. My uncle and his wife arranged everything for school and as of August of that year I was officially enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School. Everything was
What has been the most fulfilling or rewarding experience you have had as a college student? If applicable, how did the Honors College facilitate or enhance that experience? *
I am grateful for my life in many ways and for many reason, I was born 5 weeks premature and one of twins. Though my twin did not survive long enough for me to know him it gave me a purpose to try new things. Whenever I am scared of a new experience such as snow-boarding I think about how lucky I am to be alive and well. This thought helps me to spread my wings and embrace the unknown. Even simple things make me feel thankful, such as running in the rain or taking a walk with my dog or just a lazy Sunday afternoon with myself makes me think how great it is to be alive and here. I have always delight in the small moments in life and to think that they could never exist for me is depressing. Furthermore, being able to share my thoughts and feeling with people I love is something that brings me great joy.
It was a normal Saturday morning everything was going swell until, I awoke up from my slumber only to be left alone at home with my brother. In that short moment where my brother and I were left alone at home to survive I started to panic and overthink the worst-case scenario might happen. That our parents left us to fend for ourselves and we had to endure the up-coming obstacles that would soon arrive. In this experience, I learned not to overthink but to also be patient in and not make hasty decisions.