How Gratitude transformed my life

Be grateful and I shall increase you ( Quran 14:7)

This is a promise made by Allah to mankind. SubhanAllah

I have always been grateful but there came a period in my life where it seemed like I had failed in life.

I was comparing my life to that of friends and family, the people who I grew up with.

I have never begrudge anyone of what they have , God is my witness but there is this thing of comparing yourself to others and you feel like a failure.

I was looking at things from a materialistic point, mostly.

What’s funny; I had cars , a home and stuff but yet it felt like I was behind everyone.

What you focus on grows. So I focused on what I didn’t have.

I was SO miserable ,then I nearly died and this woke me up.

I was in ICU for nearly 3 weeks and everyone who came in after me , died during that period except me.

I asked God , “why me?! “

How come I was alive yet so many had died?!

I then chose to become grateful.

More grateful than I had ever been.

I have practiced gratitude daily for the last 9 years.( set out to deliberately be more thankful)

I have been grateful each BONUS single day that I live, and anyone who knows me, will tell you that I have a wierd way of responding to a greeting.

“ I am alive “ is usually my response to how are you?!

Or Alhamdulillah, ( praise and thanks go to Allah) which is my default response.

I get a chance every single day to start over. It doesn’t matter if I am having a migraine non stop for a week or any other pain, it doesn’t matter if I am in hospital or whether I have money in my bag or not. Even if I got the worst possible kind of news.
I say, Alhamdulillah!!