The Present

The best present you could give yourself is the "present." The past no longer exists and tomorrow never seems to come, all we have is now. Now is where we find peace, clarity, happiness and everything else that's wonderful in existence; far from the regrets of yesterday and the anxieties of tomorrow. 

The present is a gift, and we are blest to forever remember that. 

We are all so much more fortunate than we give ourselves credit for. We constantly preoccupy ourselves with thoughts of things we don't have and experiences we are missing out on. 

You really do not know how good you have it until it's gone. In relationships, people tend to get too comfortable and as a result become bored and complacent. This can result in infidelity and the destruction of the relationship itself. 

Only until after the relationship has been ruined does this person realize the terrible, irreversible mistake they have made.

 At this point it is too late; this person failed to realize how fortunate they were and as a result destroyed what they loved. 

We need to learn to be appreciative and grateful for everything we have and everything we are going to receive. If we all stopped for a moment and looked around us, we would find endless things we have that others are not as fortunate to have. People complain constantly about having an outdated model of a car or phone when we should just be grateful we have these things in the first place.

People get in life-altering accidents everyday. Look at the shootings, stabbings and bombings, the car crashes. If you take something for granted, you don't worry or think about it because you assume you will always have it. Some of these people will never have the ability to walk again, something we take for granted on a daily basis. Tragedies like this make us re-examine our lives.

Shouldn't we just be happy we have food on the table and a roof over our heads? So many people in the world would do anything for these things, but we still complain everyday that we do not have enough.

When you make yourself aware of how blessed you really are, that is when you learn to appreciate the “little” things in life.

Life is too short to waste our time thinking about what we do not have. We obviously can survive without them; we have made it this far. Things do not make us happy, it is how we feel within ourselves that really matters. What you get out of life depends entirely upon your attitude. The things that truly provide happiness are usually right in front of us. What we need to do it continuously remind ourselves where we'd be without them.

In order to achieve wanting only the things and people that you have you need to look into the positive things you gain from having these people or things around you. The things you take for granted are the things others are praying for.