Gratitude. That is the extremely simple miracle of life. When you are grateful, everything, even the bad things work better. However, who wants to admit that? the best of us do. That’s what makes the best of us really work as the best of us. Sometimes grateful people feel the emotions we all have, but let them go without “throwing a wrench in the spokes of your moving bike”, and believe me, I’ve had a few of those in my life, but, I move on without too many feelings of abandonment.
Persistence. Without it, she would really give up everything and everyone without hesitation. In fact, however, understanding the full nature of the game of life. I have it, and in especially strong doses, and those strong doses go beyond mere persistence to the phenomenon of perseverance, “whatever it takes, as long as it’s really worth it.” Not that a “gold star” is worth waiting for, but the reward that I consider to be truly worthwhile in my mind is what motivates me. That combines gratitude, persistence and perseverance based on my estimation of what is really worth to me in a grateful way, and not based on what others think, do, say or imply. Everything is based on what originates within me. Without that origin, nothing is worth following someone else’s path.
When you are genuinely your own person, the rewards really come because you really know what they are for you. I can honestly say, “That’s true and real and valid for me!” because the simple miracle is that I’m self-sufficient in that sense of knowing who I am, what I’m all about, and realistically I won’t give up until I get what I really want just because I know what it really is. is.
Aristotle once said that man is the ultimate teleological being. When I’m genuinely goal oriented, I’m okay with it. When the forces are scattered, I don’t agree with that. That brings me to a point of reality, gratitude, persistence, and perseverance give direction when you have a goal to genuinely strive for, nothing else does.
Without goals, life is just a lottery ticket or a winless spin of the roulette wheel, and if you win, nothing lasts because there is no genuine goal or teleological direction behind it that is the impetus for genuine direction. The miracle is simple victory filled with gratitude, what the miracle is not is the “complicated” loss. We all have a choice.