Are we grateful with what we have?

Are you grateful with what you have ? No one says yes. The question that follows is, do you know what you have? Whenever we are in distress or disappointed about something our companions start saying “See around you, you have friends and many more. Be happy with what you have.”

The value of which is lost may be precious but believe that it can be earned back. While coming to our question what do we have?, on hearing the question your brain will be flooded with many things like money, gold, friends, love etc., Here, I have to make you realize that we are not born with all the things mentioned above. Everything is earned by you, with your intelligence, attitude and love.With the coordination of your brain and physical body you can achieve anything you want. But most of us consider what we want rather than how we are using what we have, to achieve what we want. Let me put it in a simple way, what we have are emotions, brain, physical existence and most importantly time. With the well utilization of these we will get anything we want. People rarely realize this and those who realize will meet their success.

Let me explain, imagine, one fine morning while rushing to your office and waiting for a bus, there comes a 50 year old blind woman who was struggling to cross the road. Then you go to her and help her in crossing the road. She gave her blessings to you and with that you achieve respect in the society. Here the respect and blessings are what you earned with humanity i.e., what you have. Your humanity is what you have to be proud of.

There is a Telugu saying ” మొక్కయి వంగనిది మానై వంగున“, stating that if we can’t be moulded at the early age then we won’t be, forever. So we must start teaching our children how to be happy and satisfied with what they have and how to achieve things by coordinating everything with what they have. Teach kids the happiness of being satisfied. The parents should take the initiative of teaching kids how to be happy, with what they have. If they are asking for extra toys, they have to be taught about the toys they have and how they can share them with the friends.

Give them fixed budget and ask them to buy themselves a bicycle. For that they will have to save money, which will force them to be happy with what they have. Though this is a captive training, it produces results.

Teach them the value of money.
Give them 100 bucks and teach them how to fill their stomach with half the money they are given. And ask them the return change along with the calculations. This helps them in developing a sense of responsibility alongside a happiness of saving. The change what they give back should be saved into their stash rather than spending it on some other things.

When kids recognize that the things they own and the opportunities they have come from someone other than themselves, it helps them develop a healthy understanding of how interdependent we all are and they may be more inclined to treat others with genuine respect.

I hope you got the clarity of what you have, and what you want. And after knowing that, you will be grateful with what you have and all the wonders that you can do with them.