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Attitude, part four, grateful
By coach | March 26, 2007
Gratefulness is a blessing, not an indebtedness. We owe no one when we are grateful, we have been simply granted something you could never have designed for yourself, even if you were foolish enough to have undertaken the task. It is a feeling that fills the heart, floods the brain, drops your chin, shakes your head, time after time after time.
Grateful is clearly part of our notion of attitude. It is a subset of “good attitude.” It is that part of good attitude that allows us to feel we have been given something, totally unexpected. Undreamed of……………beyond your wildest dreams. And, while gratefulness, is a feeling that can bring you to your knees, literally or figuratively, gratefulness has no intention of subjugating you to the power of another. Rather, gratefulness just hopes you can see the conjoining, the cooperation, the good fortune between you and that which produces your feeling of gratefulness.
How much of life would be missed, passed over, unrecognized if the attitude of gratefulness was not available to us. What if our woes, misfortunes and the like stole every last ounce of your ability to feel grateful…………..we would be at risk for ever feeling very good again generally, and at risk for feeling grateful generally. What an existence? So very sad.
When I started this blog, I started writing some other things too. Things about my relationship between myself and my wife, who passed in September. Things that my daughter already knew, and some she could not have known. Things that provided an explanation where none had been before. Information she might appreciate knowing more about. I was disabled before my wife and I actually met, dated, engaged and were married. She was not disabled.
This last paragraph here is the last paragraph in the first note I had written to my daughter:
“I loved mom so deeply. You know, it never really struck me simply how beautiful mom was until later in our first year of marriage. Long after our dating and being engaged. Actually, it was a gorgeous day, the summer of our first year of graduate school, after she had been on a diet and lost about 10 pounds (we were outside on the front lawn of our apartment). She was wearing maroon jeans. Up to then, she was cute, attractive, smiling, full of life, smart, giving, loving to be loved and be loving. I just stared at her and thought, “what in the f__k did I do to deserve this.?'’ “This young woman is stunning. I have seen no one on this entire campus who resembles this sort of beauty.” You might say I was grateful, for everything about her, “grateful cubed.”
Kevin
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May 4th, 2010 at 8:48 am
Замечательный вопрос…
Полювання та риболовля It is a feeling that fills the heart, floods the brain, drops your chin, […….
May 19th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Так бывает. Давайте обсудим этот вопрос. Здесь или в PM….
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