A bus ride, a begging singer and me: How I discovered gratitude?
A bus ride, a begging singer and me: How I
discovered gratitude?
By
Priyambda Samanta Ray (Sem I, 2023)
This week from the
very beginning itself has been enlightening for me. But the particular thing
that I have noticed is that this week is leaning towards making me feel more
grateful for everything.
Gratitude is a very underrated
but effective gesture that anyone can show. Gratitude not only makes the
receiving end happy but also the offering end, it’s not just happiness a person
feels when someone is grateful to them but also helps them to love themselves a
little more, make a happy memory, release dopamine, and ensures mental
stability by relieving them, makes them feel important. Just some genuine words
of gratefulness or gratitude have so much effect then why not just say it?
Let me begin with the
incident that made me write this…I was on a bus, halfway to my destination. I
was sitting on the seat designated only for ladies, and suddenly a child rode
on the bus sitting in front of my seat. He was looking like a 10-13-year-old
child with two bags around his neck. One of them was big and looked heavy
another was small that could be used to keep money in it. After one minute or
so he took out a remote from the small money purse-like bag and turned on the
music system which was in the big bag, for once, I thought that there were books
in it. He started playing songs on that system followed by his singing. I won’t
say that he was a good singer and I was impressed by his singing rather it was
amusing for me, the child sang some good minutes then started begging. The
attitude that he was roaming on the bus was something that I can’t explain but
there was self-confidence in that boy that made me inspired and somewhere
grateful for the life I am living. It is winter now though the boy was so poorly
dressed making money by singing in any voice whatsoever is appreciable.
I would like all the
readers who are reading this to write down anything that you are grateful for,
it can be anything big and can be anything small like the fact that you are
alive and kicking.
The things that I am
grateful for are…………...
I am grateful for the
very fact that the life I am living now is someone’s ideal life.
I am grateful for
having such a wonderful family and parents who provide me with every reasonable
need of mine.
I am grateful for
being born without any deformities.
I am grateful for living
without any big accidents.
I am grateful to those
who taught me that I can get everything that I believe in and work for.
I am grateful to those
people who made me realize that I can’t get everything I wish for.
I am also grateful to
myself for the way I have carried myself every time I faced any challenges.
I am grateful for
having a father who gives me foresight, the knowledge that he has gained via
experience, and the strength to face the problem.
I am grateful for
having a mother who gives me mental stability, and a sense of security and has solutions
for my every problem.
I am thankful for the very
opportunity to live this life.
I am grateful that I
can think of the future and look forward.
I am grateful to have
hot food on my table on a winter day.
The purpose I am
writing this is because sometimes we just run after the things that we want so
much that we forget that we have so much with us.
I would love to say
this to all who are reading this – THANK YOU for reading this article. If you
understood the motive behind it THANK YOU. And at last, you all are beautiful,
lovable, and accepted so THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR BEING.
Ethnographic Experience
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