Thanksgiving

It is the month of Giving Thanks.  What does that mean exactly? I think you need to acknowledge the things in your life for which you are grateful and thankful.  You know - look at your life with glass half full!   I have always been that person. You know, the annoying one who says - 'But you have this, you have that..."
If I am not that person, I get really down. Doesn't everyone?? I mean, anyone can focus on the bad stuff. How you've been wronged. Why does that person have what I want? Why am I not getting that???

Instead, change your focus.  Buddhists believe comparing your life to others is a mistake. The wrong perspective. Instead, look at your life as your life... no comparison... and see what you have.  Looking at life, your life, with 'glass half full' changes everything.  Your life and your experience is unique. Besides - looking at someone elses' life isn't a real perspective, right? You get that? It is  your PERCEPTION of that person's life. No one really knows what is happening in another person's existance.  You only know yours!  So seize the day. Literally.

Tell those around you - how important they are to you. Tell those people you are grateful and thankful for what they've brought to your life.  Give thanks for the wonderful things in your life. Heck, give thanks to those challanging people and things in your life too. Those people, those moments define who you are.  Really. Reflect on the things that 'made you who you are.' Give thanks. Give thanks. Give thanks.