This is the season for awards shows: the Oscars, the Grammys, the Golden Globes, and many more. Do you watch any of them?
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Category: Appreciation
Are You Happy With What You Studied In School?
Fairly often, the subject you study in school is not what you use in your career. Are you happy with the subject matter you studied?
Share why if you wish.
How Can You Be Grateful In Difficult Times?
When things are going well for you, things to be grateful for may seem fairly obvious. But when things aren’t going so well?
When you are happy — or at least, content — with your life, being thankful is fairly straightforward. What are you happy about? How did that happiness come about? The answers can be the target of your gratefulness.
However, when you are struggling, things aren’t so easy. If your life is in shambles, finding something to be grateful for may be challenging. There are several reasons why this may be so.
First of all, it might be the case that the problems you face are numerous, and in all walks of life. Trouble with your job, your family, your health, and your finances may not leave you with many bright spots.
Even if that isn’t the case, it might feel like it. Problems always seem much bigger that opportunities. Even if you have areas of good fortune, it might be difficult to see them.
And even if you can see them, you might feel like it is inappropriate to acknowledge them. How can I be happy about my good health, for example, if I can’t find a job? It might feel disrespectful, or inappropriate, to be celebrating in times of sorrow.
So how can you manage it? How can you recognize the good that surrounds you, even in the dark? And how can you be thankful, and display it, in a way that is appropriate and helpful? How can you be grateful in difficult times?
Related questions: What are you grateful for? How do you show thanks? What does it mean to be thankful? What are the benefits of expressing gratitude?
What Are The Benefits Of Expressing Gratitude?
There are many self-help outlets — books, blogs, podcasts, and so on — that advocate regular expressions of gratitude. Why?
Expressions of gratitude can come in many different forms. They can be private expressions, in your head while you are meditating, for example. Or they can be public, directly to the person or object being thanked, or even to an entire audience of people.
You may have practiced these displays yourself. (If not, surely your imagination will suffice.) When you think, write, or speak your affirmations, what happens? What changes might take place, both within you, in the subject of your gratitude, and within society at large?
There are surely some benefits for this behavior, or else it would not be recommended by so many people in so many outlets. In your experience, what benefits come from expressing gratitude?
Related questions: What are you grateful for? What does it mean to be thankful? How could you show your appreciation for others more? What are our responsibilities to others?
Lyrics Or Music?
When you find a song that you like, is it generally the music or the lyrics that hit you most? Can good music make up for lousy lyrics, or vice versa?
Share why if you wish.