If you remain aware of your good fortune, and hold on to the belief that everything that happens is for the best, you will never feel deprived or depressed, for you will simply never have any reason to feel that way. Make it a daily habit to write down five things for which you feel grateful during the day. They could be objects or occurrences; ideas or institutions; big or small; past or present… and they don’t have to happen solely to you! The mere fact that you have access to those blessings; for instance, the realisation that you live in a city with adequate law and order, or in an era when there are such things as weather warning systems that allow you to stock up and prepare for an approaching storm, commercial airlines that enable you to reach a critically ill relative in the nick of time, anaesthesia that helps you undergo a much-needed surgical procedure that would otherwise entail indescribable, agonising pain, or even something as mundane as a refrigerator that makes it possible for you to store your favourite leftover food for consumption again later… the list is endless. Humans have walked the earth for thousands of years, and yet almost all of the blessings we take for granted today did not exist until as recently as 50 or 100 years ago. How truly fortunate we are!
To be continued.
