One of my new resolutions is to always remind myself to stay and be grateful for everything that I had or what I go through. Lately, I've been thinking, why I always feel like everything is not enough? how to make myself feel like it is more than enough.
Then I realize, that I always look up to someone who always has something more than what I have. That is the biggest reason why. So, when I realize that, I start to learn and keep doing it slowly, I try to remind myself that there are some people out there or someone close to me such as my family or friends, they don't have everything like I do.
Although they don't have everything, they never complain about it, and I can see that they always feel so grateful for what they already have right now. Whenever I see that It made me think that they are truly awesome and cool.
I always told myself that I need to learn to be like that too. I need to start feeling grateful for everything that I had right now. Because we don't know, there is someone outside who feels envious of what we have.
One way to keep myself to always be grateful is I make a grateful list on my journal. Tbh, there's lot of things that I feel so grateful but yeah, I can't write all of them. But I do always keep them in my heart. So whenever I remember about that, I will quickly said "Alhamdulillah" for everything.
Alhamdulillah for the everything that I had now, for some people it may look not much but it is such a huge blessing for me. In this small space I can do lots of my work such as writing this post, editing, and catch up with my journal or reading.
It's okay if you can't do this right now, everything need to start slowly and took times too. But don't forget to always believe that you can do this, no matter what don't give up. No matter what people said about you, just move forward.
عن جابر عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ لَمْ يَشْكُرْ الْقَلِيلَ لَمْ يَشْكُرْ الْكَثِيرَ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَشْكُرْ النَّاسَ لَمْ يَشْكُرْ اللَّهَ عز وَجل
5962 الفردوس بمأثور الخطاب
208 المحدث السخاوي خلاصة حكم المحدث له شواهد في المقاصد الحسنة
Jabir reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever is not grateful for small things will not be grateful for large things. Whoever does not thank people has not thanked Allah Almighty.”
Source: al-Firdaws lil-Daylamī 5962
https://www.abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2019/08/18/shukr-for-small-things/
