Be grateful!

I have been thinking this week about "depression “and why it comes to people’s lives. Thinking in myself I sometimes feel sad or depressed because I think that I am missing something. Many times I caught myself thinking in what I would like to do and I don’t enjoy the moment. I have a wonderful and beautiful family and a loving husband. I have more than I need. God loves me and He shows me his love every single day. I think the social media make us believe that we need more. In order to be happy we need to be "perfect". And the worst thing is that the media doesn't show the effort that we have to do to achieve things. So we get frustrated and desperate because things don't happen spontaneously.

God sends us to this earth to be happy. I remember than during my youth I was happy. I enjoyed life. I am not old but I think that I have given a room in my mind to wrong ideas and that sometimes made me sad. While I was reading the talk of president Monson titled "An Attitude of Gratitude" I realized that if I want to be happy and overcome modern "leprosy “ I need to thank him for everything He has given me. President Monson counsels us to remember six things that we need to be grateful for:

1. Our Mother

2. Our Father

3. Our Teachers

4. Our Friends

5. Our Country

6. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I want to share a portion of President Monson's talk: "Like the leprosy of yesteryear are the plagues of today. They linger; they debilitate; they destroy. They are to be found everywhere. Their pervasiveness knows no boundaries. We know them as selfishness, greed, indulgence, cruelty, and crime, to identify but a few. Surfeited with their poison, we tend to criticize, to complain, to blame, and, slowly but surely, to abandon the positives and adopt the negatives of life.

This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help.

We can lift ourselves and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.