Count your Blessings.

Life is precious and it's so easy to forget how precious it really is at times. Every now and then I find myself complaining over the silliest things like for instance a little cold I am may be fighting or bigger things such as, becoming upset that I am not where I want to be yet in my life, but then I turned on the television today and saw a news report about a girl with a serious skin condition struggling to pay for her treatment. It all of a sudden hit me, how can I wallow in my self pity, while their are people going through much worse pain then me. How am worrying about the silliest problems in my life? In the grand scheme of things they don't actually matter, one bit. Every day that I wake up, is a new chance to begin again. The very fact that I am alive is a gift in itself. God has given me this life to live it and not to be miserable with what I do not have, but to not miss out on all that is already right in front of me!

It is so easy to find something to complain about or be unhappy with every day, but it is even easier to see all the hidden blessings and good things that can occur in just

one day as well. It is what you choose to look at. After being sick for quite some time it really changed my whole perspective on life and how I want to live it. I would much rather live a happy, fulfilling life over a life stuck on the negatives and feeling sorry for myself. It took some serious time for me to figure this out. I had to hit rock bottom to come back up. Life ca hit you in the face like that and give you a reality check. I never realized that all the time I was in pain, a lot of it was by my own discretion. I didn't have a good outlook on life and on myself. I was focused on what needed to change and not how I needed to change.

Not to say that circumstances will bring you down, that is a fact, but the way I reacted to certain circumstances may have been causing me more harm then good. If I woke up in the morning and my first thought is negative I will most likely have a down day. If I wake up feeling thankful and thanking God for all I do have it sets a whole new tone for the day.I still have days where I have to fight to remain positive and not get stuck in old- bad habits and thought patterns, but nobody is perfect, but one thing I do know now is that the mind is a battle field and you can either fight for the good thoughts or give into the bad ones, it all comes down to choice.