Give Thanks Everyday

Have you ever wondered why we have one specific day to give thanks. Afterall, shouldn't we be thankful 365 days a year and not just one? Thanksgiving is a great holiday where we can all gather with our loved ones and be thankful for just being together. But why stop there? Shouldn't we practice being thankful everyday? If you do not believe in God or have a specific religion, I understand. I didn't believe in God for over 40 years. But even so, don't you still have many things in your life to be thankful or grateful for? Who or what do you attribute those things to is up to you. And if praying is not your cup of tea,there are others ways you can show you are grateful. For instance, try making a gratitude journal. Just write down one or two things in your life everyday that you are thankful for. You should have an endless supply of items. Examples could include having low blood pressure or great eye sight or a warm bed to in or that all your friends and family are safe and happy and feed. Today, with so many individuals being out of work, working for barely minimum wage, wondering how to keep themselves warm this winter or how to pay their electric bill, you have much to be thankful for. Especially, if you are reading this from your cell phone or personal computer.


Don't dwell on what you don't have like a million dollars, sports-car or pool- will those things really make you happy anyway? You can be happy even when you lack something- because face it, we all lack something. All you have to do is be thankful for what you do have. So...this Thanksgiving I gave thanks for my family and friends being in good health, safe and happy. I gave thanks for the leisure time I have to spend with my husband, the fact that I no longer am a "workaholic" and that at 45 years old, I am happy, life anger-free and feel the best I've ever felt in my life. I gave thanks for all the days I have to come (how ever many those may be) and for all the great experiences I will have along the way.

Tomorrow and everyday thereafter, I will give thanks to other things I have in my life. Don't let Thanksgiving or the day you go to church be your only day(s) of thanks. Make everyday a day of thanks. Even for the stuff you may not believe are important at the time. Nothing is "too small" to be thankful for. Make everyday Thanksgiving, 365 days a year.

.....Robyn Wheeler is the author of Born Mad, an in-depth view of her struggle with chronic anger, frustration and thoughts of suicide and her eventual diagnosis of Dysthymia.