How Focusing on Your Gifts Can Help You Appreciate What You Have
True riches are a lot different from what I imagined as a child.
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When I was in my early teens, my dad had a computer buddy.
In my preteen eyes, he seemed to have everything. He and my dad would get together to drink Old Milwaukee beer and discuss the emerging world of computer programming while my sister and I would play with the man’s many treasures.
This was the early 1980s, and it didn't take much to impress my sister and me.
In our house, you got two pairs of shoes at the end of each summer: one for school and one for going to Bible study. It didn't matter if you destroyed a pair or grew out of them, new shoes only came before school started again the next year.
We made the best of what we had, but we never had much.
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else's fairytale.”
- Wale Ayeni
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