Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. While many fail to understand the power of gratitude, many have used it as a hack to always get what they want. Being ungrateful or unappreciative can block your way, while being grateful and showing gratitude, no matter how small, can actually be your gateway to more success, and many people do not know this, so instead of gratitude, they show ingratitude. I was born into a family where gratitude was like our motto; no matter how small, you must show gratitude, as you do not know how much stress the other person has to undergo to get it done. It might be small to you, but probably they went through seven hells to get it.
Gratitude simply refers to an act of showing appreciation and being thankful to people or someone for what they did for us; many people shut the door against themselves for failing to show appreciation. I have a friend who was complaining badly about his younger brother being ungrateful: "I bought clothes for him, and instead of appreciating it, all he could say was, Is this the best I can do?" The younger brother has already forgotten what he said, but this friend of mine still remembers and has promised not to try getting him clothes again. Appreciation and showing gratitude go a long way; there is a feeling the giver gets when they see how much the receiver appreciates what they were given.
Showing gratitude speaks a lot about you as an individual; my mom will always say, "When you show gratitude, you stand a chance to get more, but failure to do so means whatever you get is the last you are getting." We are living in a generation and world filled with entitled people, people who feel they deserve more than you are offering them and for that reason fail to appreciate what you present to them since they already feel they should be getting more, especially those that call themselves "Gen Z baddies who feel they are entitled to a man's money just because they are women and instead of working for theirs, they depend completely on the man to sponsor their lifestyle.
Entitlement is the reason I am grateful that gratitude has become the order of the day, because we are friends or neighbors. You start to feel entitled to certain things, sometimes way more than the other person can afford, and because your expectations are high, when I do the little I can, you fail to appreciate it because you expected more, and you feel entitled to certain things all because you know me or we are friends. Entitlement mentality is something we need to do away with, as that's the only way to eradicate ingratitude.
On countless occasions I have seen showing gratitude pave the way for individuals; I have seen even prank videos of a partner coming back with a small token from abroad to see how the partner down here would appreciate it and show gratitude, but in most cases these partners fail the test since they feel they deserve more. One way to become one who shows gratitude and appreciation is by doing away with the entitlement mentality. Nobody owes you anything; if people do you good, appreciate it and show some gratitude, and don't feel like you deserve more; if you think you deserve more than they have given, go get it yourself.
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