There are sometimes some people in your life who are always looking down. Even when things are looking up for them, they’re not appreciating the daily blessings of life.

I cannot feel empathy for these people anymore, because it just brings me down. I have come to realize that no matter how positive you try to be and to help guide them and show them the beauty of what their life holds – they don’t want to see it. They will tell you ‘yeah, you’re right…’ but then do nothing about their situation. Most of the stuff they are miserable about is the situation they created for themselves.

They say that life teaches you lessons over and over until ‘you get the lesson.’ Perhaps this is the perspective most people should take, when griping about their mundane and petty problems.






At some point each person becomes responsible for their actions and reactions in life. And if they live a life without optimism, a life without faith and conviction in the positive – they are not people of gratitude.

I always say that an attitude of gratitude will give you inner peace and create peace for all those around you. We are not born to only have things handed to us. We have to work for them and work at our own lives each day.

A lot of people get lazy, they don’t want to do the work and they want things to come easy. But the truth is life is not easy – because if it were easy, we honestly wouldn’t appreciate it when things are glorious.

The old sitcom, “The Facts of Life” has a fabulous campy theme song, but one that I love. “You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have… the facts of life.”

This couldn’t be more true. We have to have down moments in order to appreciate when things look up. Yes. But if we CHOOSE TO LOOK UP even when a situation puts us in a challenging time or a down mood, we will have peace all the time. It’s just one of the many beautiful gifts in life that we are given --- freely, upon our own free will to receive it.

So when things are down, if you look up – you will start to see only the upside of life. And then you know you are really living.

Blessings to you. May you always look to the upside.

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