Gratitude

When I look at my life I am overawed by the contribution of so many people who must have all come together in certain fashion to make it possible for me to live the way I do. The clothes that  I wear must have been a work of many right from some one sowing a seed of cotton to someone transporting it somewhere to then people working to stitch and to then making it be in a shop. Indeed so  many people were a part of it and I wear it so unaware.. Similarly with food.- someone grows,looks after it puts his sweat  and toil to it, reaps and buyers buying, packaging, transporting and finally in supermarket to which I go in my car again a product that I use due to many people involved to get me my food so that I can live and I eat it so unaware.

Gratitude is not a refined, cultural behavior. Gratitude is the sense of being over awed and over whelmed by how life bring to you so much and you do not even pay attention to it. It is not what " you must" feel but it is a force that makes your heart want to revere this cosmos of making you be in a space time of this Universe where you have so many work for you invisibly so that you can do and think other things..

A thirsty given water may become over whelmed with kindness and that is gratitude

A hungry having not eaten food for days may become overwhelmed with kindness and that is gratitude

A girl given an education when she comes from a country that does not allow it may become overwhelmed and that is gratitude.. ...

A war torn family just given assurance  of safety for family may become over whelmed and in gratitude

The ones who may not have experienced such extremes must try to at least live in the awareness of it all. When one becomes aware of  how the invisible makes things happen for you one lives in a sense of becoming very receptive.

Unless you are not dazed by your own life you live in a "cultivated" gratitude- a learnt behavior. And when you realize you can only be stunned by sheer blessings you have around you, for you and to keep you the way you are.