Grateful

Sometimes life's lasso has a way of dragging us down.  It has a way of painting that red bullseye of negativity right on our hearts and minds.  It has a way of bringing out the absolute worst in.    Instead of viewing this life with the clarity we once had,  experience has painted  the skies gray  with clouds of confusion, and we view through lenses filled with shattered glass.  We're henceforth left to pick up the pieces and to designate what is counterfeit and what is not.  You realize that this life of monotony and struggle is far from over.  The lessons have just begun to be learned, and you're the student in pre-k, hoping someday to cross that stage to have your doctorate.

But when we stop, and as they say, "smell the roses", we're reminded that things could be much worst, and maybe it's not so bad.  The struggle allows us to see that what we have and what we gain is much sweeter.  Take time to be grateful and think more on the positive rather than the negative.  For more than one reason, it's great to be an optimist.  You're stressed less, you live longer, and life's lasso merely touches you, but does not grasp you.

• Im grateful for wonderful family and friends who love me unconditionally.  The love me with tenderness, and with tough love when I need it.
• Im grateful for my firm, though it's the hardest thing I've ever done, I've learned so much already from the struggle.
• Im grateful for three long years of struggle during law school because it taught me that im not a quitter and that anything is possible.
• Im grateful for the times in which I felt lack, whether financially, relationally, romantically, physically, or otherwise, because it's taught me to appreciate the better times and to walk in humility.
• Im grateful for the present, no matter the state, because it teaches me how to take authority over my future.  It teaches me how to enjoy and live in the moment because tomorrow is not promised.

Take the time to truly be grateful.  Remember things could be much worst, hold on to your faith, and remain hopeful.  You only lose when you quit.

What are you grateful for skillologists?

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