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Count Your Blessings

Do not take for granted what life has given you!

Sarah Gail Jones
Aug 23, 2016
Austin Peay State University
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I have been very blessed in my life. I have wonderful friends, an amazing family, and a wonderful life. I have been given many opportunities in life that I am very fortunate to have been given. But, I haven’t always been thankful for them like I should have been. So many people don’t even have a warm home to go to. I have taken for granted everything that life has given me.

I’ve decided to stop being ungrateful, and to start thanking God for every day that He has given me. I have so much to live for and to aspire to attain, and it is about time to be appreciative. I am able to go to college, which many people are not. I have been given the opportunity to go to school to educate children. I have been given the chance to write for a wonderful publication that I strongly and completely believe in and love. I am blessed beyond compare.

From now on, I am going to be appreciative of what life has given me. I am going to go on more adventures. I am going to start spending more time with my family. I am going to spend every day of my life being grateful and happy. Most people would kill for what I have in life and it is about time that I realize that.

I can’t thank my family enough for loving me. And I can’t thank my friends enough for always being there for me. From now on, I am going to work hard to make the people in my life as happy as they have made me. I am going to stop and count my blessings and be happy with the life I have. I have a roof over my head, loving people surrounding me, amazing opportunities, and a lifetime of happiness to enjoy. All I ask is that the people in my life give me time to truly be the best that I can be. I am going to make you all proud, just you wait.

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