It’s easy to take everything for granted when everything is just going along day after day, you’re doing your thing. Life goes on unimpeded.

Then we get an unexpected reminder – a life moment where we or a loved one has experienced a health issue or has been involved in an accident. The question  “What if this is it”  takes centre stage in your mind. All of a sudden taking things for granted wasn’t such a good idea.

Most of the time our brush with anxious uncertainty is little more than a reality check, a reaction to our fear of “What if this is it?” . Whatever caused our concerns generally turns out to be nothing and we quickly return again to our default setting of taking life for granted. For some, the outcome is dramatically different – it is terminal cancer, someone did unexpectedly die. Their life will never be the same from that point on.

All of a sudden simple things like walking in the rain, listening to the birds singing (the birds are going nuts in my backyard while I’m writing this), people laughing, that double rainbow the other day, their partner’s kiss on their cheek as they leave for work wishing them a great day – things once taken for granted have now become very precious.

There’s a great middle eastern quote ” Good health is a crown worn upon the heads of the healthy, that only the sick can see”.

I’m sure we all agree, our health and future happiness shouldn’t be taken for granted.

So what about just being grateful?

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Gratitude, gratis and grace are words all derived from each other. Gratis meaning “without charge or without payment”. Giving one’s time freely, helping someone less fortunate or just adding that extra value without question or having an expectation of monetary reward is a gracious act. Yet not all who receive such acts are grateful. They’re suspicious, there’s a hidden agenda or they just have an expectation that the world owes them something for nothing.

To me being ungrateful conjures up a miserable soul with little care to contribute to the wellbeing of others including those closest to them. It’s all about them and no one else. The world owes them!

Yet others are so grateful for the generous assistance that they have received. By the way – it’s not necessarily about giving to charity, it could be mentoring another person or being a good friend, maybe just helping out when it’s all hands on deck.

So it’s quite possible an “attitude of gratitude” may simply be a matter of choice. Being grateful for what we have and what we receive through the grace of others or a higher power can’t be that hard? Having gratitude and being gracious surely adds a little bit of extra zest at little, if any, cost to all our lives. – RD

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