Being grateful.

Tomorrow is my birthday. When we are getting older, we start thinking about our lives, and all the things in it. I choose to think in the things I’m grateful for. Here they are:

• I’m grateful to be alive, because I realize each day that is a gift and I have to appreciate it.
• I’m grateful to my family, because they are with me in each step of my life.
• I’m grateful to my friends, because they make my life so much easier.

These are things I’m sure you can be grateful for too… But there are so many other things that we don’t appreciate! For example, we should be grateful for the sun, the spring, the summer. We should be grateful for the flowers, its smell, the ocean, and the rivers. We should be grateful for being able to share a world with amazing human beings. We should be grateful because we are able to laugh, and cry, and feel. We should be grateful for the fact that, it doesn’t matter how much it hurts, eventually we will find a way out. We should be grateful for so many things!

But one of the most important things we should be grateful for, is the love others give us. I told you that before, but I want to repeat it today: we have to thanks other people the love they give us. Love is a gift, it is free, but it is important. So, let’s show to others how grateful we are for that and for them.

Don’t waste another minute. You can start being grateful now!

By Patricia Rivero.