Attitude of gratitude
Over the last few days I have been so grateful for quite a few things that have touched my life.
With the wise eyes of hindsight I cast a look over my life and today, perhaps for the first time ever, I looked at a number of times when I felt truly alone, times when I felt I could see no way through the quagmire of doubt, despair and difficulty.
At those times I didn't know what I could accomplish and what could be achieved in my life. I have been raised in rather humble economic circumstances by western standards at least, and was kind of a loner in many ways. There were thoughts through the years and sometimes even now when I have felt that people didn't understand me at all.
What I have come to know and believe even more of late is, the fact that I only need to understand myself.
It wasn't that I felt this today, it was that for the first time I saw significantly that at those times in my life when I felt alone, I realised today that I really wasn't. I have been blessed by having people at key times in my life, take on unsolicited surrogate parental roles that always helped me through.
There are too many to mention, suffice it to say that today, I became a very grateful person for the many people who reached out, and those who continue to, and touched my life and have seen within me something of the diamond I know that exists "in the rough" within.
It was written that "no man is an island" and whilst I have felt that I was one, I am a grateful beneficiary of the trailblazers who helped me realise I was never alone. Whilst there are choices, decisions and consequences that I will face alone, I have seen that there are hands all about me, about all of us willing to be there for us if only we ask or reach out.
I deeply thank the people in my life who have, and who continue to, believe in me. I am humbled and grateful to each of you. I accept that few of you will ever even read my blog post and know I was talking about you but the feeling I have is something I will NEVER forget. I honour you, each of you silently and hope the remaining years of my life will serve as a quiet tribute to that belief and support.
With the wise eyes of hindsight I cast a look over my life and today, perhaps for the first time ever, I looked at a number of times when I felt truly alone, times when I felt I could see no way through the quagmire of doubt, despair and difficulty.
At those times I didn't know what I could accomplish and what could be achieved in my life. I have been raised in rather humble economic circumstances by western standards at least, and was kind of a loner in many ways. There were thoughts through the years and sometimes even now when I have felt that people didn't understand me at all.
What I have come to know and believe even more of late is, the fact that I only need to understand myself.
It wasn't that I felt this today, it was that for the first time I saw significantly that at those times in my life when I felt alone, I realised today that I really wasn't. I have been blessed by having people at key times in my life, take on unsolicited surrogate parental roles that always helped me through.
There are too many to mention, suffice it to say that today, I became a very grateful person for the many people who reached out, and those who continue to, and touched my life and have seen within me something of the diamond I know that exists "in the rough" within.
It was written that "no man is an island" and whilst I have felt that I was one, I am a grateful beneficiary of the trailblazers who helped me realise I was never alone. Whilst there are choices, decisions and consequences that I will face alone, I have seen that there are hands all about me, about all of us willing to be there for us if only we ask or reach out.
I deeply thank the people in my life who have, and who continue to, believe in me. I am humbled and grateful to each of you. I accept that few of you will ever even read my blog post and know I was talking about you but the feeling I have is something I will NEVER forget. I honour you, each of you silently and hope the remaining years of my life will serve as a quiet tribute to that belief and support.
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