Charlie loves to be busy and has several favourite toys. One of them is an old pink stud earring. It's metal and glitters - just his specialty. He spends lots of time twirling it in his mouth, dropping it over the side of the dresser, and trying to remove the rubber stopper (he's finally managed this feat). When he's really going for it, the stud ends up in all sorts of places and if he can still see it, he'll get up from where he is and retrieve it to play some more. If he can't see it,
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Charlie is still young, fresh out of the egg at only twelve weeks old.
While he seems somewhat dim in rather a large number of departments, Charlie is brighter than most suspect. For instance, having learned to plummet to the floor with the savagely clipped wings he came with (so bad he cannot even glide), he refused to get off the carpet and walk to assistance across the wooden floor. Round and round the carpet he went for oh, half an hour. Finally assistance coaxed him onto a finger
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Gratitude acknowledges. It affirms, says yes. It says, I accept. These characteristics seem to me to be direct replicas of the characteristics of love which certainly acknowledges, affirms, and says I accept.
Love is an expansive thing. Things don't die of love usually. They die because they aren't getting any love or enough of it. Nothing thrives on hate or fear, or ignorance. Those things all contract and swallow themselves up eventually. But love makes things grow.
So if gratitude
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Gratitude is the fastest way to get happy because we are only ever grateful for things we can appreciate. It is a physical impossibility to be grateful and hateful at the same time. Gratitude is a feeling so if you're feeling grateful or appreciative, that excludes any other feelings.
If we're really interested in being happy then the best place to start is by being grateful. I know this from personal experience and I promise you it works. Start by finding the benefit, the good thing, and
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Many of us feel that we aren't appreciated, whether it's at home, in our relationships, or on the job, but it's interesting sometimes to do a careful assessment of how much appreciation we actually give.
If we don't give, how can we expect to receive, and this applies also to appreciation and gratitude. According to the Collins Concise Dictionary, the word, gratitude, means a feeling of thankfulness, as for gifts or favours. So gratitude is a feeling; and feelings are based in the body, not
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Charlie the Commentator – No.6
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