Grateful

I recently heard that a friend of mines' husband died. It wasn't something that was unexpected by my friend or the rest of their family because her husband had been sick for awhile but it still makes it a very hard and tragic time for all of them involved. I had talked to my friend about it the day after it happened (yes, she went to school the day after her husband died, crazy huh?) and she was doing as good as anyone would expect. She wasn't wailing and crying but you could defiantly tell that she was going through a lot in her life at that moment.

A tragedy like this is obviously never wanted by anyone, but it actually got me thinking a bit about the things in my life that I take for granted and might even have the possibility of losing someday. I am still very young, of course, so death shouldn't be knocking at my door and hopefully (knock on wood) nobody around me, but there are many times when people don't stop and think about all the things that they have in their life that are blessings. I can say that I used to be one of those people. This whole tragedy that happened with my friend made me open my eyes about all these things in my life that I still have and get to enjoy. Even though I feel stressed a lot in my life with everything going on I am going to try to make myself stop and just think about everything that I have in my life that I take for granted. Maybe this will help me be less stressed, who knows.