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Count your blessings

I bought this set of keychain for my gramps. So cute right? They both love it to bits man! Haha..I'm proud of myself.


A wise person said this to me this morning: "when you count your blessings, you will find many things to be thankful for...". True true.

Been rather short fused these days and especially with family members. My grandma bore the brunt of it on monday when she suddenly appeared at NCC with my grandpa. I wasn't expecting her and so when I saw her, I was quite mean to ask why she was there when I actually know her intentions. I felt the way I felt because firstly I was already bothered about how to take care of grandpop when he sighs and worries about his discomfort and blah and then grandmop comes along and be herself (complain complain and ask same questions 1001 times etc). Double whammy! Anyway in a nutshell, the wise person told me early in the morning that grandmop upset that I brushed her aside that day, which I know was baddie bad bad :( ok i will be nice to her if she decides to follow grandpop.

Grandmop always test my patience. Seriously to my limits. Yet at the same time, I feel sorry for her coz I know she is very concerned for grandpop. My grandpop deserves an award more prestigious than Oscar for being able to tolerate the wife for all these years! And I don't have even 10% of his forbearance. Despite his discomfort, he still watches out for grandmop and puts her needs before his. LOVE IN ACTION! Got much to learn.

But anyway, this week I also went to my best friend's grandma's wake and wakes/funerals always make you ponder about life in a depressing way. Deep down I know one fine day, people around me will say farewell. As much as that is very sad, but that's life. And I also know that I must treasure the people around me and not wait till they are gone to regret not having been appreciative blah blah blah.......so I'm reminded to be patient and love my grandmop as much as I love grandpop.


So one of the many blessings I am so thankful for will be my gramps.




Many more things/people to be thankful for. The list never ends...so moral of the story being: count our blessings everyday and maybe we'll just complain less and be thankful for all the little things that happen in our lives.

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