Being Thankful

Life brings mixed situations that make us happy and also worried. Many situations are there and we know only ours, the kind of situations we bear. The responses to those situations were almost a curse to God. Because we perceive happy situations joyfully and find someone to blame when we encounter a bad situation and that someone will always be God because we know that He is the only who will not fight back with us. We forget to remember that everything comes to us and we should receive everything with same mindset. Laughing and crying is good but cursing and getting depressed is bad.

I remember the day, a bright sunny noon, when I went to a hotel to buy lunch; I was asked to wait in the reception for a while. That reception was looking road, was covered with sunglass and has a terrace for shade. The owner was sitting in his chair counting money and taking order from phones. There is a fish tank that contains many coloured fishes including gold fish and which tank would miss a gold fish in it. As usual I laid my eyes and heart open and observed people around, I noticed some guys from the hotel go for door deliveries in the hot sun. They were worn out while they arrived back. I noticed many outside sales men go in the sun to sell their products. And its awful to see one woman was selling cucumber in the hot sun that she cannot take one for herself to quench her heat. I turned and saw the owner, he was back busy with his money and phone calls. I noticed one person has a job like this and one suffers in sun and I asked to myself why is that? Many life’s questions doesn’t have an answer and this doesn’t have one too... I thought I’m sitting in the shade with a fish tank before me for a time pass. But many suffer for their daily bread. What a life I have is surely gifted by God.

One day I got shocked to see many people lying down sleeping outside the railway station at 1 am in the morning. I asked my dad why they were sleeping in road, it was almost road and they were families. Dad said, “they would have booked two trains for a destination and they sleep in the delay time of the next train.” I was shocked because I couldn’t place me in such a situation. I noticed there was many married women wearing saree sleeping there and shocked to see teen girls sleeping there. I asked to my dad, “how do they sleep here, young girls, how do they, its hard for me even to think of that”. Dad said, “When it comes to life or death you would probably be doing the same.”

I cannot think of what he has said and I was still and just one thing came into my mind. God has been so loving towards me... I should always be thankful to him no matter what and my thanks wouldn’t suffice his deeds for me even if it were held it till death tear me apart...

Thank You Lord, My God...