Appreciation

One word...Appreciation!

Simple word with so much meaning

So today I woke up singing

Feeling as though I have everything

To be thankful and grateful for

It felt as though I went to bed with a smile

And woke up still wearing it.

To my surprise

The thoughts in my mind

Were all about positivity; how grateful I am

For the people around me

For parents who love me unconditionally

For friends who make an empty sky feel as though it’s filled with stars

And to God, for guiding me through.

But then again, let me be honest

I was shocked because this is contrary to the norm

The situation is mostly like;

-Damn, things just aren’t going my way

-My parents just don’t get it when I tell them I’m broke

-These group members are just stressing me, wish I had better ones

-I want that, but let’s face it my account status isn’t the situation on some 6 figures

-need to figure out how to lie to the folks....AGAIN!

-these assignments are too much. Creator of education...clearly hadn’t discovered life

These are statements we all have uttered

At least one of them and I am victim to that.

I always find a way to make what I have seem like its not enough

Indeed, its human nature to some extent but 

Have I ever bothered to think otherwise when I start saying it?

Like the fact that there is nothing like my way

Because it is not like I have lived before to know how my way goes!

Or the fact that I am clearly the one who doesn’t get it...

How much effort from my parents goes in?

To educate me, pay for my bills and enable me to live this luxuriously!

That the group members I am with are good because

I have no right to judge who is good or not!

The point that I actually have what is sufficient and actually more,

Because let’s face it... we exaggerate on our wants

But when the mullah checks in, it is spent on what is clearly not purposeful,

We are very willing to spend on the unnecessary but not on necessities

And have the audacity to go back to your parents and begin using the strategy you had thought out!

Not liking education, yet if it weren’t for it

Even constructing this statement would be a problem.

Yet you will say how you want to do this, change that,

Impact the world and make a successful life for yourself. But how?

How will you do it without knowledge and wisdom?

I thought about all this

And clearly I realise in life we have so much

To be grateful for and appreciative of

But instead we focus on how we don’t have enough

How we need more and then the constant IF ONLY’s

Think of those that aren’t in your position

Those that don’t even have anything to compare it to

All they ask for is much less than what you hold

Platter of opportunities is what some have been raised to

Why not take that and build it?

They say a journey starts with a single step

This is me starting mine.

I’m all packed and ready.

In my bag-pack is a simple statement;

I appreciate it or I’m grateful.

Be thankful for all you have,

Don’t dwell on what you don’t

When faith and focus go to building the existing...

Dreams begin being reality, the bright pictures we paint for our lives

I mean we all want that paradise future right?

 © Christine Kariuki