Finding Peace by Focusing on What Still Works

If you've been following up my post for a while since this year, you'd notice a pattern of how I write and share my thoughts even on prompts I get from communities especially Hive learners. The most clear pattern is, I'm focusing my writings on myself and making sure I am the hero. Now I do understand writing to feel better.

I didn't realize I was doing it, I started to share in public (Hive) what my mind is making think in private and how I plan to lead my life going forward. This has brought about different situations for me that I can't even start listing out but I am so grateful for. And that brings me to what this post is really about... Gratitude Power.

One thing I've heard people do in most parts of my life is complain, they complain about everything so long it doesn't favour them at the time they happened. Complaining is so easy to do that many people indulge in it without even realizing it. I am also guilty of it, it's why I'm sharing it here because I am trying to unlearn it.

I believe saying it in the open like this would also help me fight the spirit of complains, although I know where the real solution is and that's what I'll share. If we all realize where complains come from, we would know better not to complain and there is only one place that any form of complain can come from, it's also a place less thought of.

"Complaining comes from a place of little to no gratitude" and I say this with all the certainties I've witnessed, heard and read especially in the last few months of my life. Let's be honest with ourselves, complaining drains us more than we want to admit and the opposite of that feeling is the power of strength that comes from gratitude.

A Short Story...
I had a kinda bad day sometime ago, I was having so much pains that smiling got difficult to give and I kept having bad thoughts that didn't help either. I was just about to start my usual inner complaints of "Why can't I just go through this without the pains?" when my cousin suggested a walk. I left complain to go with her.

I came back home with more gratitude than I had expected I would because I realized just how fine I felt walking and talking about things that God has made possible for people, my cousin raised the topic and I took the lead on it after. I was only in pain, not dead or lacking what to eat or eyes to see, I felt guilty for almost complaining before.

The point is, there is power in gratitude and I mean, counting the things that are going well for you and letting life play out well in those things that are not going well for you. And believe me, showing gratitude is way easier, feels better and changes thoughts way more than complain ever could. Stay grateful and see how complains die.