Gratitude – Anonymous Short Story

I read this on the now-defunct Gratitude Facebook page, which has a link back to Lifestylezone.net. I was given permission to share it with you all.

We are seniors who, like everyone else, were living our lives and getting along financially as best we could. Then we turned around, and we were old.

Married 50 years and still together, how wonderful is that right? Plus, we had pretty good health and only one bad health scare.

Then we took a hard look at the finances and knew we would have to sell our home. Plus we should have anyway. Turns out we wouldn’t get enough to pay all the bills. So we were one of the seniors that declared bankruptcy. Does anyone have any idea how hard that is cause you can’t make your credit back up if you can no longer work!

However, after saying all that… We are still together in a wonderful place to live, have enough food and then some, still have reasonable health and we know that all we have is NOW. Plus we know you can’t take the money with you when you move on so to say we are grateful is an understatement.

The lesson is, for goodness sake, pay yourself first and save for retirement. It would be a lot more fun with money.

Wow! Isn’t that the truth? When you surround yourself with gratitude, your conditions really don’t matter as much as you may think they do – you perceive things differently! Reality is what you want it to be (until you go off the Deep End. Ha! The Deep End!) In all seriousness – the saying that ‘Anything is possible’ is so very true. Have you read about the gratitude I felt when I gave away my pick-up truck? That was a great day.

Go fill your destiny with gratitude!

A nice little read! What do you think? Leave a comment below!

Note: This post was updated for relevancy and fixing/removing a broken link.