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How to Use Gratitude to Change Your Life
Research shows that gratitude improves emotional well-being.
I use to be the typical person who complained about everything. Life kept hitting me at every opportunity. Nothing I undertook worked out for me. I felt like a failure.
As the song says, “there are three things in life: health, money, and love.” Well, I had none of the three. And that created frustration inside me. I walked through life bitter, and worst of all, I had no desire to get better. I said I wanted to change my life, but that was a lie. I did nothing to do it. When you get into a loop of negativity, victimhood becomes your comfort zone.
For a long time, I was going the wrong way, until one day, my mother asked me to pick her up from work. When I arrived, she told me she would be an hour late and that I could wait for her in the Tv room. My mother worked in a nursing home for nuns. I remember it as if it were yesterday: there I was, waiting for my mother surrounded by octogenarians watching a mass on television, and of all the people there, I was the one with the worst face. A nun approached me, and without asking me what was wrong, she said a phrase from the bible.
“Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not…
