31 Be grateful to life
Once President Roosevelt's house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. Hearing this,
one of Roosevelt's friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his heart so much.
President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying,"Dear friend, thank you for your letter
to comfort me. I'm all right now. I think I should thank God. This is because of the following
three reasons: firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all;
secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most
luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief…"
It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from.. However, President Roosevelt had such
three reasons to be so grateful. This story tells us how we can learn to be grateful in
our life.
Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom. . It is impossible
for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. "
If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.
We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously and to try to
deal with it. If so, should we complain about our life and become frustrated and
disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves
after a fall? William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, "Life is a mirror. When
you smile in front of it , it will also
If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are
successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one
excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.
I think we should even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky. Only
by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. We can also get
relief and warmth when we are unlucky. This can help us find our courage to overcome the
difficulties we may face, and receive great impetus to move on. We should treat our
frustration and misfortune in our life in the other way just as President Roosevelt did.
We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy attitude to our life forever,
keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind
of comfort, not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. Being
grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.
When we put a small piece of alum into muddy water, we can see the alum can soon make the
water clear. If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we'll be able to get rid of
impulse, upset, dissatisfaction and misfortune. Being grateful can bring us a better and
more beautiful life.