BEING GRATEFUL

Being grateful? Are we really grateful for everything in our lives? Are we more complaining than being appreciative of who we are and what conditions we are in be it living or otherwise? Is there an end to how grateful we should be?

These are the questions I do ask myself at times. I don't want to sound like a *know-it-all* kind of person but I guess most of us aren't thankful enough for who we are, what we are and what we've been. How many times do we thank God every day for having complete set of limbs and legs? Do we ever thank God for the way our body is being structured? Is our self-love channelled to being appreciative of our we are?

Every other day, we meet people with physical disabilities, we relate with them (some of us though), some of us see them as humans some people don't, some of us have sympathy, some empathy and some others, none of the above. But is all of these channelled to being thankful to God for how He made us even when any of us could have been with such disabilities? Are we always thankful to God for those lovely set of hands and legs and the fingers and the toes and the waist / hip and the face in general? Do we see it as being "privileged or lucky"? Do we think it's just normal for us to be "the complete beings"?

We often look away from the facts that we're made by the same God who created these people with physical disabilities. Some people even go as far as discrimination these set of people. I personally think that we need to have a rethink on the subject of being "indefinitely grateful to God.

I wouldn't want to sound all" religious and scripture-like", but I think it's high time we started being more thankful to God for how He has created us and the conditions we are in. I tell people at times that "being able to complain of you look, the condition you're in, the kind of fate you have and your life in total is a very big reason for you to be thankful to God".

Some people are dead, some are bedridden, some can't talk, some can't walk, some are in non-ending comas, many have worse fates,many want to have the kind of lives we have even if it is short lived. Now tell me, why shouldn't we be always grateful to God for all he's done for us? Some are always thankful, some are appreciative once in a while, some people think it's just law of nature that is in play.

We all need to be more grateful to God for what he's done for us and also learn to love everyone around us irrespective of gender, race, ability or disability.

Being grateful,how grateful are we to the Almighty? Let's ask ourselves, let's ruminate on that, let's change our ways.

My name is Quadri Qudus Bolaji (QIDAKINGIN)