I like how this community prompts are making me remember things I thought I've forgotten and feeling grateful for things I wasn't grateful enough for. This week's prompt took my mind back to a close friend of mine I knew back in the university. We are still friends but I know better.
As much as we try not to assume things, we always assume because it seem like every single person out there is trying to not look like what they are going through. So it's easy to assume that another is having it easy than you, because you have failed to understand how life works.
If every person should go around with how life is treating them, we will be living in a depressed world daily. It's why there are people who smile or laugh so much but we later hear that they committed suicide or are about dying. It's why we see people who are wealthy but without peace.
Some time ago, I thought I was average (I was actually trying not to call myself, poor) because I thought my life would have been without problem if I had it easy like my friends and other rich people I see around. That was until I learned that breathing and walking with no help is wealth too.
I remember how I would always quietly compare myself to my close friend back then, she was so beautiful with charisma that made me even crush on her wishing I can be like her. I genuinely admired her so much that I let her advice me on some things to do, I'd say "She's got everything".
Then I learned about a condition she is having and one that she would have to live with all her life. It isn't a life threatening condition but it is definitely one I can not imagine having to deal with as it requires her to be more conscious of her body, clothes and people wherever she is.
I knew her when she has somehow learned to live with it but recently, she posted a status that made me realize just how deep it has eaten into her mental health. It made me understand just how much better my life is in that aspect and I feel bad that I haven't been grateful enough for it.
Having a friend like that made me feel grateful that even though I have problems I want gone, I have a whole lot of things to be grateful for. It taught me to appreciate life as it comes and enjoy the goodness of life that I have, especially the simple fact of waking up daily in good health.
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