Being grateful.
- Aoyumi Jung
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min read
10:45pm 01.02.2020
Over one striking year of growth, one of the lessons I got is being grateful for everything I have, I receive and I do. It reflects the law of attraction, what attracts us is what we do with our life. Give flowers, take flowers. It’s just that the returns go in different ways, but the meaning stays the same, even deeper. My mentor has recommended a book called “The magic”. If magic exists, it is the truth of the natural law that gratitude creates a magical life. The book defines “magic” and gives practice guidance for readers to gradually “touch” the magic after 28 days. Trust me, this is not a marketing slogan, it is an honestly interesting toolkit which I will follow from tomorrow, the second day of February. A new month comes and better living values.
The next question of a Vlog challenge for my Youth Nurture Club would be “What you have been grateful the most in 2019?”. This is exactly the question Lens on Mekong Team shared together in the last meeting. And this afternoon, I was going to send a friend I just met a thankful message, he already texted me with thankful words. Yesterday, the last day of Jan 2020, suddenly I got an inbox from a stranger advising me to upgrade my Wixsite blog. His message was detailed and of willingness. It came as a surprise to be, though I have got quite many surprising things recently. I care about people I first meet, and someone I have never met might care about me as well. These are clear manifestations of what gratitude looks like in practice. It is simple, but very often, taken for granted.
Have you ever thanked money? It is not even common for many of us to thank ourselves for trying hard, let alone the things we receive for free. Sometimes I am broke, but I still take care of myself as much as possible. I eat what I feel like eating. I no longer treat myself poorly just because of my poor budget. Because I know I could earn money to serve my own needs. At the moment, I don’t even know how and when yet, but over 4 years, I have lived my life with sufficient earnings to stay independent and go around. People might say I started with a bit better material life, but I also add, it depends much on whether our spiritual life is rich or not. So yes, I thanked my family for granting me such a strict education to be able to take initiatives since young, for giving me support and studying orientation since early. And I thanked myself for always trying hard to balance my need, what to do to meet the need, and what I am dedicated to. I thanked money for creating so many amazing transactions on Earth, for pushing humans to make effort.
Money is an interesting topic I have thought of recently, according to my need and the law of attraction probably. I was searching for methods of how to make passive income. The root cause was I have been broke, and as usual, I sought all kinds of opportunities to light it up. This time is the first time my mind ramified around investment, and a sincere intention to learn about financial management. I am more accustomed to the app called “Moneon”, recommended by my friend, which helps to record all expenses instantly. After I was able to get the first full-time job, I was aware that making money is hard but beautiful too. I initially familiarized myself with budgeting social projects on Excel, then I applied it with my personal spending. But this is not effective for Excel as there are too many clutter things turning to our mind. How can we constantly use Excel to keep track of these minions? I was in the mess of thoughts, all of a sudden, an interesting article about Digitalized and Upgraded Time management skills from my friend blew my financing life. Moneon is a great tool to set limits and goals to manage the savings and expenditure ranging from food & drink, travel, house spending, schooling fee, etc. The app also reminds me of how much money makes my life more beautiful. Again, as a result of the law, my new friend has finished his Master in Finance and Banking, he is knowledgeable about investment. I’ve gotta be more motivated to dive in it, little by little since I do know I am bad at finance.
The entire distance I walked today was quite long, around Bangkok and my school campus. I way to say:
I am grateful that I was able to walk well. Thank my back because I can still sit to type these thoughts. Thank my brain for being able to resist myself from other attractions like movies or chitchat to focus on this blog. Thank my hand for being able to touch the keyboard and create these texts. Thank my eyes for seeing lovely sky. Thank my nose for smelling flower tea and coffee. Thank my ear for listening to non-lyric music in peace. Thank my close friends for making me laugh through the online texts. Thank my new friends for sharing interesting stories with me. Thank bus 29 and 2-theo for giving me a chance to arrive home. Thank the lady who gave me a space to sit. Thank the guy to ask around to show me the direction. Thank Hang for asking me to join you. Thank my roommate for buying candy for me. Thank my parents for calling me. Thank Thammasat for planting beautiful trees along the road and built this lovely Common Room. Thank me for reading the book “Magic” on the bus. Thank chi Hai Yen for recommending the book. Thank my teammate for agreeing to delay the call. Thank my friend to come visit me on Tet holiday. Thank my sister for showing me your graduation photo. Thank the Internet for connecting me to other wonderful humans. Thank me for starting a day by carefully washing clothes, cooking a healthy breakfast, and taking a shower. Thank this life for giving me such comfort and bless.
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