They both were sisters. Grew up together and got same values. Pretty much same values. However, we build our own lives and personalities. One was always hungry and greedy and one was always grateful! The one who was grateful got married in financially lesser family and the one who was greedy got married in a financially better family. So she wanted more and when she did not get more, she always had more complaints. She always wanted to tell her husband that how inept he was and how he was unable to fulfil her desires. The one who had an attitude of gratitude struggled financially and to meet ends. However, she always told her husband that she can see how hard he was working always to manage the family. Not to mention this attitude was changing their relationship. The one who was complaining about not being done started having relationship problems and one with gratitude was creating a beautiful relationship.
Now, another level of problem started. One who lacked gratitude started feeling jealous of her sister’s relationship. A person who chooses to see what’s not right will always see what’s not right. A person who chooses to see whats not there will always see what’s not there. So she saw her sister’s happy family and her falling relationship. She ignored her sister’s struggles at that time. Finally she had to seek help! She could no longer take her life.
She had to work on her relationship, on herself and everything else. Not to mention all these things were affecting her health too. She realized how important gratitude is. How she would feel if everyone just pointed to her what all she did not do for them as she was pointing to everyone. What if they all acted same towards her. She felt she would feel lot of pressure and she would break.
She started seeing what all was being done and then everything started changing! First of all she started sleeping better. (The stress was going away). Then her relationship and then her health.
Do not compare what is being done in comparison to what you have done. The equation keeps changing. We can never have a fair balance sheet for relationship or life. Sometimes we do more and receive less and sometimes we receive in abundance without doing any thing. Just keep counting your blessings and you will see how blessed life is.
