Who’s the person that you should thank the most?
One morning, when I was preparing my breakfast, this thought flowed into my mind: “Besides everything that supports this condition (people and all of the sources), at the end of the day, the one that I should appreciate the most is me, because of me and all the hard work that I put on, all of this is possible, thanks to me”.
No, I didn’t thank God since I don’t know where’s God and I never know who’s God, so I thank myself, the people, and everything with all of its supporting conditions that led me to the moment where I am.
I was feeling happy and grateful for the breakfast I had in the morning. A little cup of coffee milk adding simple toast topped with little margarine and chocolate sprinkles that I used to have back in the day when I live in the lodging house with my friends. The lodging house doesn’t provide meals in the country where I live.
When I think of it rationally, for most of the part, I’m the one that works on everything in my life until I could taste and have this ‘sweet’ breakfast. I’m glad for myself. For being my own best friend when there’s no one I could really rely on in this life.
There’s a comic I read when I was a teen. I remember there’s a scene where a little kid asks an old man why is he always smiling in his life, what it is that makes him always smiling? I don’t remember exactly the scene but what I ‘feel’ about that scene is… I wanted to be like that old man. To be able to smile despite all its up and down in this life and to do so, I guess I’ll need to learn to appreciate all the little things I had and, myself.
What are the little things that make you happy today?
