"A Letter from Sullee J: The Importance of Gratitude"

"A Letter from Sullee J: The Importance of Gratitude"

Were you grateful for being able to sleep last night? Are you grateful for waking up today? Do you have both arms, both hands and both legs? Do you have vision, whether it is 20/20 or not? Do you have someone who loves you; parents, siblings or friends? Do you have a roof over your head? Do you eat until you’re full? Have you sat down for a minute and actually thought about what you had, instead of what you didn't? Do you realize, even if you have one of the things I just listed above, you are blessed? Are you forgetful of what has been given to you? Have you become so use to these things that you need to have them taken away in order to realize? Did you say thank you to the last person who helped you? Do you love the person who loves you back, just as much? Are you so confident that you will live long enough to see tomorrow? I write this to you, so you can think about these things every day. Life is short, but it seems that our memory of what we have in it is even shorter.

Don't you know that happiness is a state of mind, which solely begins with 'your' attitude? Either you are negative, or you are positive. Your whole life is capable of changing with just how you perceive your surroundings. No one in this life will have everything they "want", but if they learn to see, they will see they have what they need already. People want a million dollars, so they pray for it. Did you ever think you might already have the million dollars? What if that million dollars was in the form of something else, like a mother? Someone who loves you? Paper isn't the only asset. This is what I mean, we have things of value which are worth more than anything in this world, but we don't ever notice it until it's gone. I had a friend who lost their mother, and they told me "I would always be so angry and do things just to make her mad, and the next thing you know, she was gone". Would you really want regret like that in your life? Be grateful while you have it, and be grateful for having the chance of having it.

The beauty of saying 'thank you' is that it takes little time, but the effect lasts a life time. Just as we should be grateful for what we have, we should be grateful for what we don't. If you believe in God, than you believe what we don't have is only for our own betterment. No one knows us better than the one who made us. You must learn to believe in your creator, without doubting his reasoning. Sometimes what we don't have is a way of having something in itself. Like they say, 'a prayer unanswered, is still a prayer answered.' When you pray, you should say thanks for the things you have first. Thank God, thank your family, your friends, your neighbors and anybody who's been there for you and with you through thick and thin. Most people may not realize it, but gratitude is a form of charity itself. Not only should you appreciate the people who come in your life, but also the ones who leave your life. Every single thing has a purpose or lesson behind it in life. Life remains teaching us, so we shall remain learning from it. 

With that being said, you should never not be thankful, because you can never be too grateful. Learn to be tolerant, be accepting, be positive, and be appreciative. Remember that, the first step to being great is to be grateful. We work hard every day to reach our goals, dreams or even the next promotion at work. Although, once we get there, we sometimes let our ego step in and change how we think. We cannot allow ourselves to get ahead of ourselves that is exactly how we lose. You see how everything correlates with being grateful. If we cannot display gratitude or be thankful for our blessings, than slowly we will stop having the things we should be saying thank you for.

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'For some people, enough is never enough. For others, it is just enough.' - Sullee J.

'I’m Thankful…' By: Sullee J

I’m thankful for the ones that love me

The ones that hate me

The ones that I call friends

And the ones that tried to play me

I’m thankful for the ones that need me

The ones that want me

The ones that try and please me

So later they can come back to haunt me

I'm thankful for the pain and the laughter

If it wasn't for the rain

I wouldn't have known how to keep a straight face after

I’m thankful for being alive,

I’m thankful for having a reason to survive

I’m thankful for making it out of hell

Because at one point, I was feenin' to die

I’m thankful for my enemies,

They taught me who's real, which helped better me

I’m thankful for this life

And every day that it lets me be

I’m thankful for love and the

Lessons it showed me      

I’m thankful in general

For what's above, and what's below me
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S.U.L.L.E.E. J. (Society's Undisputed Liberated Lyricist Expressing & Exemplifying Justice)
www.officialsulleej.com