9 Reasons why you should be grateful

Hi losers
We all complain about shallow things. And thats fine. Actually being shallow is ok too. But if you don't recongize all the big picture reasons why you should be grateful - you might actually really not like life. So I made a list of reasons why you should be happy about life. It'll make you feel better. It's mostly a list about how much things could suck more but whatever.

1. YOU WERE BORN HUMAN

People say corny shit like 'I wish I was born a bird' but do you realize how LAME that would be if you were a bird? You are born from an egg - you eat worms - you fly around and try not to get killed - you eat and sleep and get prego or get some other bird prego - then you die. THATS IT!! So when you see a bird flying free in the sky, remember how lame that bird really is. Think for a second HOW MANY living organisms exist in the world. And you were born human. You could've been born a tomato plant - a fish - as a parasite. But you weren't and because you were born human, you have so much more of an interesting life. So many living organisms don't even have entertainment. Do lizards have fun? How do you make a tree happy? You're able to have fun, to be happy. You were born human. You already have a better life than anything living that isn't human.




2. YOU WERE BORN HEALTHY

So you may need glasses or maybe got diabetes. Maybe something worse. But you weren't born w AIDs alright - for the most part, you're healthy. Some babies aren't born so lucky. We don't really see it so much because if they died before we got to know them, well we never met them to realize it. But you were one of the babies born that didn't have to stay in the hospital for months after being born(or l hope not anyway). Having your health is so important. Sure you may eat like shit right now but you can go buy strawberries and broccoli right now and change that. If you're low on Iron, you can buy Iron and take it with water. Anyway, you got all fingers? Cool. You have your health. Thats a big win compared to everyone who was born with life long health problems that effect their life everyday.


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3. YOU ARE EDUCATED AND HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE YOURSELF FURTHER

So if you're reading this.... you're on the internet. The internet is pure information. Sure people lie on here to troll on idiots but for the most part, there's a lot of good information on here. But I'm jumping ahead. You can read. I know not the biggest deal but some people were born in areas without opportunity to learn to read. But then you went to school and got an education. You learned to read, write, math, history, science and then a bunch of other stuff that may or may not apply to your future but hey - the opportunity to learn was there. You have had opporunity to explore things in school - music - art - gym class was always awesome.

Ok so even after high school, if you're still an idiot - you can still learn if you want to. l don't remember shit on the periodic table but if l need to know it for whatever reason, l can find out on my iphone5 in 15 seconds. YOUTUBE has visual and audio information on 'HOW TO' do anything in life. Something break? You wanna make something? Need knowledge in an area? Youtube has the answer. Before the internet existed, people had to find information from either other people or books. Books are rough and I was never a fan of books before the internet came out. First you had to FIND a book on the information you wanted. Then you had to go to the Table of Context and find the section where it was hopefully located at. Then you still had to go to that Chapter and seek it out. After that, you had to hope the information was even in this book. And there wasn't a book on everything. This is why magazines were so popular before the internet. It was the only way to get a constant flow of information on a subject that was updated. 7th grade in 1998 for me is when I first started going online all the time so l could hit on the girls l had class with because everyone started trading AOL Screen Names. I'm glad I got to see how the internet change the world. Now you can learn ANYTHING YOU WANT. Do you realize how insane that is? But what's more insane is that you can learn INSTANTANEOUSLY!! The amount of knowledge a person attains is ridiculously heightened because 99% of the questions you have in life, someone has had that question too and there a forum's answering it all over the web.

You are connected to the internet. I know it sounds shallow for a reason to love life but if you remember the world before the internet was around and then see the world as it is today with the internet. You know how drastically it changed the world and you have ACCESS TO IT.



4. YOU'RE NOT IN A TERRIBLE PLACE IN THE WORLD

Are you a slave? Do you have rights? Some people in the world don't have it so good as you do. It may be extreme but in the big picture, you have it amazingly well that you are a free person. If you're a female in other parts of the world, you may not have any rights. Its pretty extreme but we don't think of things like this because we are in the US and we're surrounded by people who have rights just like you do. So you don't see it and you don't think of it. But its a big fucking deal. Imagine if you were born in North Korea and if you didn't fake cry hard enough for your leader dying, you were arrested and forced to do hard labor. Ridiculous right? Well that happened to people. Imagine if you lived in the Middle East and a man asked you to marry him and you said 'No' so he poured battery acid on your face and completely ruined your life and he got away with it. Well that happened to people. Imagine if you lived in any third world country and got eaten by an animal. Watch Animal Planet - some people are STILL PART OF THE FOOD CHAIN. Besides sharks, when have you ever really worried about getting eaten by an animal? 





BONUS REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL
So if you have any of these things listed below, this is all just BONUS. Because not everyone you're surrounded by has all of these things. The list above applies to a vast majority reading this but the list below does not.

5. YOUR BACK ISN'T AGAINST THE WALL

What I mean by this is that you have freedom to alter your life and go for dreams if you want to. If you have the finances, you're usually cleared for a lot of this. If you don't have the finances, this may not apply to you. If you got a girl prego or got prego yourself and now you're just working an okay job to pay the bills and you don't have time and/or money to go back to school or a tech school to gain a skill to increase your pay, you're stuck. You're back is against the wall. Some people screw themselves simply by moving out right after college and rent a place too expensive for themselves. Living paycheck to paycheck paying for rent and food and they are just living. No money to save up for a home to buy one day. They eventually move back home with their parents so they can start saving.

If you're able to change your life how you want it to because you aren't forced to be working to make ends meet, you're very lucky. So many people are struggling to just get by. To survive. Theres a big difference from living at home and not having any bills to worry about and then losing your job compared to having two kids and rent to pay for and then losing your job.



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6. YOU HAVE AMAZING FRIENDS

True friends that have been in your life for years and will continue to have in your life. This may not seem like the biggest deal but some people don't have a best friend to share everything with. They just have a bunch of casual friends here and there. Imagine not having your best friend(s). When you're in a really bad situation where you need someone to help you out, imagine not having ONE person to call on. What's even worse than that? Well.... some people don't have friends. It's kinda crazy but some people just never made a good connection with anyone even on a casual level. It's pretty sad. They could be born healthy, born into money and have all the opportunity in the world but because of how their personality is - they have no one to share their thoughts with, they don't have people to laugh with, to go out with, to talk with in general. Friends are a big deal.




7. WEALTH

Nothing wrong with having more money. As long as you're not a brat about it, having lots of money is awesome. Anything you can do to enjoy yourself, you have the option to alter factors in whatever you're doing because you have more money. Some options don't even exist without money. There's a lot of expensive hobbies out there. Even the not expensive ones can be more fun when buying stuff to add into it. If anything, you can create your own fun with money. When lm jackass rich, lm building a massive swimming pool w soft platforms and having a shitloada dodgeballs in there just so l can play TRUE Battleship Dodgeball. You probably don't full know what that is but its cool as fuck.

Besides the fun you can do with money, you're also not broke. Not being broke is nice. You can also help people. You have the opportunity to help out your friends and the needy if you choose to. You have funds to do something to do something for others and you don't HAVE to but you have the opportunity if you want to. Some people(including me) aren't making shitloads of money to be able to donate to bigger picture things. If anything, you can help your friends whether they just need money because their finances are currently not so great or to help fund a business idea. Money isn't the most important thing in the world by far but its something that can help a lot of other areas. But you can't buy friends - but only the weirdos don't have friends so don't worry about it.



8. YOU ARE NOT UGLY

And if you are - its 2013, you don't have to be. Well if you're fat. You can lose the weight if you diet right. From high school to real life world, I have seen a number of people go from average weight to fat and from fat to average weight. Its crazy. But when people really set their mind to it, they can lose it. So if you're fat, yo you might be pretty hot if you lose the weight. Maybe you lose the weight but your face is just busted. Ok this isn't the best advice but if you got the money, theres surgery. Just be VERY CAREFUL with who you go with and don't do too much. Probably best to go to South Korean honestly since they by far have the most face surgery than all other nations(Brazil having the most boobs and ass surgery LOL l read up on a few charts and stuff one curious night) and it's so common there, the doctors should be more skilled. Hollywood has been fucking up celebs for a while not. Don't get your nose done there.

But ok that was all about if you're fat and/or naturally ugly. And sorry, this is just the BONUS section remember. You should still be grateful for everything else. But what if you're not ugly. That's very cool. Not being ugly is pleasant right? How about being hot? I think hot people have it pretty easy. Yea creeps say weird shit to you at the clubs and facebook add you but it's better than no one knowing you existed or knowing you as the horse teeth girl/guy right? I don't think I need to get to deep into this one. If you got looks, that's a nice bonus. Some people struggle with how they look their entire life. If you're not one of them, that's one life problem you aren't dealing with. Also, l always thought it was cool how some guys know their not attractive and really just don't give a shit cause they're still hooking up with girls so they don't care lol. 
 



I know. You feel hot as shit after looking at her. Me too homie.

9. YOU HAVE SKILLS

If you got skills, now you are more than just having a good life. You have something to contribute to society. You are then useful in someway. People can learn this skill from you. You can help people with your skill. You can make mad money because you understand something not many do. Some people are useless. They're not even funny. So having a skill is kind of a big deal. Yes many people have skills but there are many different types of skills out there. The skills you have make you who you are. They define you. Most people are defined by their career. He's a lawyer, she's a CEO, he's an accountant, she's a nurse. These titles define us quickly that people understand. So enjoy it. Don't be useless.



As my closing paragraph I'll say again that being shallow is fine. Why is it fine? Because you can remind yourself how good you really have it. You can always laugh at yourself for things you say and how ridiculous they really are.

'OMG Electric Zoo got cancelled, my life is over!!!!!111' when really, you got another concert next month anyway. Some people can't afford to get to Electric Zoo.

'I'm going to fail my business statistics class, I'm so fuckkkedddd!!!!!11' take it next semester with another professor. It's annoying but atleast you have the opportunity to be in college.

'My car keeps breaking down on me!!!1' atleast you got a car.

Think about what poor unprivelaged people would say about your problems. Then you'll realize how they are not real problems. Then when you realize you don't actually have real life problems, you'll be happy.