Gratitude, Enjoyment, and Happiness

We never stop looking for happiness. Although it is very difficult to define. Happiness is what and what. Not easy to understand. So happiness is often too abstract for us to embrace the nature of reality. Poor people think rich people are happier because everything is there. The rich, many are assessing how happy the poor people are freed from the shackles of debt to hundreds of millions and even billions. So what exactly is happiness? In the search for happiness, I often feel the pleasure. When I was a bit of money - for example - I feel good. When I was a lot of money, it also feels good. When sick, feels good. When sound is also delicious. When his own pleasure, also favors noisy. If the little pleasures that we have collected and arranged in a long period, then the inner feelings we become so comfortable. At times like this we feel happiness. Do you feel the same?
Like a tree; Happiness is the fruit. Enjoyment is the trunk. While the roots are; gratitude.

1. Starting point to happiness.

 
For happiness, there is no straight route winding simple. Flat is not steep. Smooth not rough. Harmless and safe. The route there is a point of departure named 'gratitude' - path to be passed called 'pleasure', and - the destination named happiness. Happy is the farthest point in our route. While the pleasure that is what we feel is fitting for a take it. Gratitude for where? There is a list of options or choices in our lives. We may choose to begin this journey with gratitude that can enter into the path of pleasure. We also may choose not to give thanks, so whatever we get will generate complaints. Consequently, if we start from the post of gratitude, then anything that we experience along the journey will be full of pleasure so that the end of the trip; all the pleasures that are accumulated into happiness. Conversely, if starting from point 'instead of gratitude' then even all the glitz was not going to produce pleasure so it is unlikely that we can achieve happiness. So, let's focus on the initial point of departure named 'gratitude'.

2. Gratitude for life.

If there are people who "live to regret ', then it shows that man has no gratitude for the life she has got. Not his life that make us sorry, but the quality of life itself. Irrelevant if we live to regret because of its quality. Because life is gifted by God. As for quality, determined by the effort that we do. Good or poor quality of our lives to some extent determined by the willingness, effort, hard work and perseverance we are to fight. If we cut out of the arena of struggle, why we blame then live? We certainly do not include people who live to regret. However, we often regret the things that 'we do not do' in the past. "Oh, if I had such and such, of course now I blablabla .." do not you regret that we often hear from the inside? It is natural that the Giver of Life calls us to appreciate life. He can take it away since yesterday. But until now we still live. Also reasonable if we are grateful for the gift of it to make our lives better in gaze. Since there is no better way to celebrate life, but filling the days of our lives to the actions and deeds that favored the Giver of Life.

3. Gratitude for the convenience.

How much ease do you get? Your body is perfect, so all you can do business without a hitch. Motorcycle tires or your car protected from the road spikes that you do not have problems traveling. You turn on the gas stove normal so your dishes can be cooked. Your children healthy so you can go to the office with ease. Afiat your teeth so that all daily activities can be lived in comfort. There is another more easily? A lot. Even the teacher reminds me of life; "If you count the ease with which God has given, you probably will not be able to count them." Now, what do we do with our whole body? Kebaikankah? Or bad? If the position which we clothe it's part of the ease with which the Lord, then how do we fulfill the mandate that was a picture of gratitude that we have. All of the ease with which we get, whether used to create difficulties of others? Or we are grateful to the convenience that we have made ​​it easier for other people's business? In fact, when we managed to facilitate the affairs of others, our hearts feel good. We enjoyed the feeling so motivated to do the same thing more often. And because of that activity continues, then we feel pleasure even hold that happiness came.

4. Gratitude for the trouble.

Easy to say 'Thank God' when we're completely beautiful state. What if we are in a state which is too difficult? I think it's gratitude for the trouble rada inconsequential. At least there are two reasons why we would need a sense of gratitude for trouble. First, even when it is in every ease the difficulties that we've got to be more so 'value'. Maybe in the past, yet they acknowledge that convenience. So it's time to do so. And make a personal commitment; if you later get it back, I'll always be grateful. The second reason, appreciate the difficulties we are facing arguably the level of the highest gratitude. Imagine, when God tests us with a very serious difficulty. Instead of complaining. We are actually grateful that it was even more trouble we get closer to Him. Do not we become more and more fervently in prayer while being completely hard? Then it is worth also when God said that; in trouble, there is ease. And convenience that would be obtained by people who keep gratitude; despite being located in the middle of whipping trouble.

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