gratitude – Pure and Simple

What is something you wish you could tell your 20-year-old self?

Hi there, my dear me,

Life runs so fast, my dear 20-year-old me, but life is good with all its hard and sweet days.

This is not a spoiler, by the way… just bits and pieces, little hints about life, our life.

You, my dear me won’t believe what the future has stored for you; what the Almighty has planned for you.

Think, imagine, and dream as much as you can, yet you wouldn’t come any close to reality.

By the way my dear 20-year-old me, I still remember uni studies, small circle of friends, dreams, job plans after graduation, and… Egypt, with its warm days and humorous people.

Oh… that was a slip of a tongue.

But yes, you will have a second Home.

Whatever you’re thinking right now, Egypt will always be present in your life.

Everything change, right, my dear 20-year-old me?

So be prepared.

Mama and Baba used to criticise Egypt —the Egypt where you live now, saying, “Where have those old good days gone? People are not the same anymore, manners aren’t not the same, even food isn’t the same.

You will get married soon, my dear-20-year-old me.

Your prince will take you far away.

Children will arrive safe and sound, and they fill your life with joy and blessings.

Challenges, adventures, confusion, disappointment, tears, laughter, and many more welcome and unwelcome visitors will knock your door along the way.

So… don’t forget to be grateful, and always count your blessings.

And from now on, be proud of yourself my dear 20-year-old me,

for the more challenges you face, the more lessons you will learn.

And the more lessons you learn, the more you know how to enjoy life.

And… I know this might sound a bit funny but be ready to live in the new world of AI.

That… well you will discover more in the future.

With my dear 20-year-old -me thoughts,

Nahla

How do you express your gratitude?

What can be better than acknowledge the help, the support, the kindness, the time, the care, the advice, the lesson, the comlement, and the so many other things that we receive from others and that make a change in our life.

Isn’t it a wonderful gesture of gratitute to add some extra few lines acknowledging others’ contributions, moral or theoretical, to the completion of your thesis, book, research paper, or even to your life in general.

Isn’t the simple, genuine, ‘Thank you’, whether spoken or written convey much about your being grateful.

Things don’t have to be fancy or expensive, and words don’t have to be two page speech to express our gratitude. It’s our genuine acknowledgement of the part that others played in your life that matters, that can really express your gratitute.

Sometimes, I wonder how some people could be so cruel, so ungrateful to ignore and forget how much others have done and given to them.

Kind words are free, so why be so thrifty to utter any?

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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