Days of PURPOSEFUL Thankfulness – Day #28

Note: Refer to day number 1 (July 25, 2015 post) if you don’t know what this is all about.

You and I have been learning things all of our lives whether we recognize it or not. Hopefully from the time both you and I were little kids there were adults who were teaching us to say thank you and when it was appropriate to say thank you. One of the reasons that you are reading this (I hope) is to enrich your life with reminders to live a daily life of thankfulness. Besides learning to say thank you, hopefully we have learned how to be courteous to others. We have learned how to dress ourselves and take care of our hygiene. If you’re an adult reading this hopefully you have learned what it means to take care of yourself. And of course, there are those life lessons; some of them have been harder to learn than others. There are various relationships that have helped us learn how to handle the other things we would have to face later in life. Those relationships have been within our families, on our jobs, in friendships, in business and other realms. Some of those relationships you may wish you’d never had but if you look back I’m sure you can see you learned something. Even if it just meant learning that you didn’t know YOU as well as you thought you did. And in all of this learning there is one person we have to thank—the teacher. The teacher has been our parents. In other cases the teacher has been a grandparent. The teacher has been the educator in a classroom. The teacher may have even been a little child (oh the little nuggets they can teach you). In relationships that friend or significant other has been a teacher. You may even say that hard-nosed boss on your job (if you’ve ever had one) has been a teacher. Yes, even him or her because perhaps they helped you to see just how strong you really are and that you can endure just about anything.

Without teachers throughout the course of our lives we wouldn’t reach the maturity levels that we need to sustain us in life. Life at times can be tough and sometimes we need to be pulled outside our comfort zones to have built in us what is needed. So, instead of despising some of the experiences you’ve had in life be grateful for those teachers. If the lesson wasn’t for you maybe it was so you can help someone else going through the same thing. Be grateful that because of that teacher you have an opportunity to make a difference in the life of someone else.