gratitude

When you choose to count your blessings rather than your problems, you are simply shifting your bucket from the first well to the second. The landscape around you hasn’t changed, but your thirst has been quenched.

As human beings, we are hardwired to adapt. This adaptation is beautiful for survival, but dangerous for the soul. It breeds a subtle amnesia. We look at a glass of clean water, a warm room, a smooth road, or a tool that clips a nail, and we feel nothing. We take them for granted because they are always there.