Be grateful. You are blessed. - We wake up everyday thinking we have a mediocre life. Some of us feel so depressed or unlucky that they have this and that problems. Let's just stop for a while and listen to the world. A beggar comes up to you, and you feel disgusted or annoyed by his unrelenting attitude or his stench. So you avoid him or send him away. Just stop, I'm not telling you to sympathize-no. The ability to sympathize I'm afraid cannot be taught or learned. The ability to sympathize is a seed, that everybody has naturally, it only matters how that seed is nurtured and grown. But stop and try to listen. Maybe someone or something is telling you that you have forgotten to be happy, contented and be grateful for what you already have. A neighbor or somebody you know had just gone through the worst event of their life: went to jail, got fired or got evicted etc.. so we feel pitiful a while, but then again proud that we are not like them. Maybe it's just right to feel that way. But maybe it's also time to feel grateful not because we are not like them, but because we are not in their shoes. It's time to think about opportunities we had and have and that it's not only on what we decide to do, but what decisions we can make.