A blast of cold air to his face… That’s the last thing Makinde remember after he walked into the banking hall just before everything went blank. The next thing he knew, he was waking up in a crowded hospital Ward. It had been two days, and there was a bandage on his neck which hurt. Luckily for him, he had very narrowly escaped death because a stray bullet hit him by the neck after a deadly rubbery incident occurred as soon as he walked into the banking hall that day!
That day had begun like any normal day. And feeling overjoyed by the salary he had received, Makinde branched to the bank (on his way to work) to carry out a quick transaction. Little did he imagine that he was indeed walking into a dangerous situation. Recovering from that experience made him reevaluate his life even as he learnt to count his blessings. He learnt to be grateful, and most specifically to be grateful for life.
The above short story is a fiction I wrote just to better buttress the points I’m about to make in this little expose on gratitude. Indeed, there are many things we should be grateful for in life. Unfortunately, with all the sad things happening around us, we often forget to show gratitude for the good things happening as well . So we’ve bemoaned our situations enough! Right now is the time to be grateful. Yes indeed…this is a lesson on gratitude! And I shall be hinting on the simple and even ridiculous reasons why we should all be grateful at all times.
I for one am grateful for life/good health, as well as the opportunity to be happy in life despite all the bad rubbish that go wrong right around me. I am grateful for love; for the warmth it brings and the romance/pleasure too. For the opportunity to eat hot noodles on a cold rainy night I am grateful. For the morning sun that glows on my skin after a cold harmattan night I am grateful. My gratitude knows no bounds! For the food that nourish my body I am full of thanks. For the water that is life, the air and the trees… For friends that make me laugh out loud and even for the haters that give me quite the Muse! LOL:) And for the intuition that informs my decisions and the human inkling that keeps me away from harm I am grateful.
I am grateful! For the moon and the stars, for the sound of music and the rhythm at parties… I am grateful for the ability to know and advance myself in knowledge , for the academic process that empowers me to explore new areas… For the books I have read and for the internet. Oh! how I am grateful for the internet; it is indeed the best thing that has happened to me since the telephone and slice bread! I am grateful for Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter. Oh! my world; how I love to tweet and to read tweets from others. And by the way, Google makes my world go round as I’m sure it does yours…
What are you grateful for? Do tell in the comment section…
