Saturday, December 7, 2013
Negative Thanksgiving
A young woman was sitting at her dining table, worried about
taxes to be paid, house-work to be done and to top it all, her family was
coming over the next day. She was not feeling very thankful at
that time. As she turned her gaze sideways, she noticed her young daughter
scribbling furiously into her notebook.
“My teacher asked us to write a
paragraph on “Negative Thanksgiving” for homework today.” said the daughter,
“She asked us to write down things that we are thankful for, things that make
us feel not so good in the beginning, but turn out to be good after all.”
With curiosity, the mother peeked into the book. This is
what the daughter had written:
“I’m thankful for Final Exams, because that means school is
almost over.
I’m thankful for bad-tasting medicine, because it helps me
feel better.
I’m thankful for waking up to alarm clocks, because it means
I’m still alive.”
It then dawned on the mother, that she had a lot of things
to be thankful for!
She thought again…
She had to pay taxes but that meant she was fortunate to be
employed.
She had house-work to do but that meant she had her own home
to live in.
She had to cook for her family but that
meant she had a family with whom she could celebrate.
Moral :
We generally complain about the negative things in life but
we fail to look at the positive side of it. What is the positive in your
negatives?
Look at the better part of life this day and make it a great
day.
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