Gratitude

Gratitude
Gratitude is a virtue that not many of us have. The state of being grateful; thankfulness. There are so many things to be grateful for, but it seems that the only time we say we are grateful is on the holidays or our birthdays. That is not true gratitude, it is not just something you say once in a while to your family and friends. To be thankful one must be humble enough to show it with our actions on a daily basis. As teens, we seem to forget the sacrifice and hard work our parents or guardians have been making for us. Just for us so that we do not have to suffer as they did coming to the United States with only twenty dollars looking for work with minimal education. They work hard so we can go to school, and yet we seem to forget that. Instead we sit and complain how we want the latest smartphone or tablet, while a kid in a third-world country would like some food or even shoes to help his sore feet with blisters all over. Most families in the United States have a home, clothes, food and even other commodities. We are so comfortable with what we have that we start to become ungrateful and start desiring more and more things that it becomes not enough anymore. We are so blind, we are not seeing what we have, but instead we see nothing. If we had nothing then we would truly be grateful for anything. It is time for the teens in our society to wake up and realize we have it all, we should be thankful and start showing it.