Wednesday, 1 July 2015

What are you grateful for?

"Gratitude is a positive response to life; in developing kataññu (gratitude), we deliberately bring into our consciousness the good things done to us in our life... A life without kataññu is a joyless life. If we don't have anything to be grateful about, our life is a dreary plane.

-Ajahn Sumedho-

So the task today is to list out what I am grateful for. 
  1. I am not handicapped physically. I have 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 ears, 2 hands, 2 legs, 10 fingers, 10 toes and everything is functioning well as of this moment. 
  2. I have a father and a mother who raised me up since young. They have been together for 26 years. My mother has given me everything I needed when growing up, including a very expensive education in USA (which I quit after my 2nd year going to 3rd year)
  3. I have my aunts (mother's sisters) who love me dearly as if I am their daughter.
  4. My cousins (mother's side) are so fun to be with even though I get bullied a little sometimes, but they are like my extra brothers and sisters.
  5. My cousin's children (a.k.a. first cousins once removed) do the funniest things! How those small kids try to do things they are not used to is hilarious.
  6. I had dogs who loved me oh so much. 
  7. I am able to speak in English properly. Malay maybe a little bad. Chinese would depend on the dialect (I know a bit of Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, & Hokkien). Some I could understand and speak whereas some I could only understand what people are trying to say but unable to reply fluently.  Learnt German for 25% of the semester and currently learning Japanese. I'm also learning how to speak Burmese from the Burmese staff where I work. So basically I have 6-ish languages that I know (no matter how little I know which is at least 10 sentences/words).
  8. I can use the calculator. I know how to use some of the functions on an advance calculator like those you would use in the Actuarial exams. Not something to brag about but it's something I guess I would be grateful of.
  9. If my phone crashes, at least I think I would know how to handle it.
  10. People not being angry or annoyed at me all the time. I sometimes find myself to be quite annoying and a bit of a klutz. So, people being patient and not angry at me for that is something I would be thankful for. 
  11. I have friends even though most of the time I choose to be all alone, but at least I still have some friends. 
  12. My friends sending me postcards and letters~ I totally love that. Each time I receive a postcard/letter/anything through mail from anybody (even the bank), I feel ecstatic. I'll be like: "WEEEE~~~" It's my 'Prozac'.
  13. I can type on the keyboard using almost all 10 of my fingers (not looking at the keyboard) instead of pressing it one by one with my index finger (which my dad does. I pity him sometimes for that, but my mum says that it's his own fault because he refused to learn how to use the computer - the story is: she bugged him long time ago to learn the computer and he refused)
To be continued.

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