Do not confuse: Gratitude is not Charity! 

Nowadays, it´s common to find a word of wisdow, coming from a professional such a psychologist or just from ordinary people, like you and me. They talk about gratitude like it´s the same as charity.

Whatever we think about it, gratitude, according to the dictionary means “recognition of a person by someone who has provided him some improvement, advantage, gain or benefit”. 

Based on this, we can reflect about the gratitude just as a feeling or an oportunity to be thankfull for someone’s action, showing him or her how great his or her actions were at that moment, and sure this is commendable!

However, nowadays some people change the true meaning of gratitude. We can see that frequently, when somebody talk about gratitude as a prize or a gift that “good people” deserve for their acts. Actually, these was supposed to be a type of reward only and, because of that, gratitude comes to be an overused word.

So that you may be aware, you can be grateful anyway to your boss, for the job you got, for example, but remember, this job is yours because you struggled for it and probably used all of your skills and willpower to get there and to keep yourself there. And this goes for everything in your life!

Then first of all, this is your achievement!

Last, be grateful to the life and if you believe in God don’t forget that the main reason for God to create the humanity is certainly because He believes you and just waiting the same of us. In other words, believe in God, but spend your time and energy believing in the humanity too!

And if you don’t believe in God, don’t worry! You’re not alone in this world! 

 Just get ready! You’ll need more patience, faith or another spiritual’s reason to believe in this current crazy humanity!

Gustavo Luis Marcolino.