Counting My Blessings

I just realized that there are so many things that we don't appreciate in life. People always say count your blessings, then only you will be grateful. But do we really count them? Literally?

Neither did I. 

So I gave it a try.

Then I realized that they are actually countless. In fact, they are plenty of blessings that we overlook at it as something normal just because we get that blessing everyday! If we were to say thank you for each blessing, then that will be the only word we'll be humming throughout the day.

Like being at home..

I'm having a great time being at home. Plain fun. It's a bliss to be waken up by Dad for Subuh and pray together with the family. At home, I strictly refuse to use the alarm clock to wake up. Simply because :

1- I miss being waken up by my parents, like I always do when I was a kid. I know eventually I'll get married and won't be living with them my entire life,  so I want the most of things when I can still have it.

2- since I was 13 I've been waking up by alarm clocks, from boarding schools to college to university, so basically I just want some time away from that annoying thingy for a while

3. When I'm at home, I couldn't care less where my phone (my alarm) is. I don't see my phone for days!

Then, breakfast will already be prepared on the table by mum (shame on me!). Still, we always have our mother-daughter fun time preparing lunch together. Sometimes shopping for groceries, watching some Korean soap opera etc. If not enough fun, we'll do some smurf baking, trying out some new recipes.

It may seem like just an ordinary day to some people, but to me, it is the day(time) I know I'm never gonna get back. I've been living in a different county than my parents for 13 years, meeting up with them only during school breaks. I know well how it feels to wish you could do something with your loved ones but you just cant. So I'll  do whatever it takes to make the best out of it when I get the chance. Let it be just an ordinary day. Point is - and ordinary day is still a BLESSING. 

Of course there are million other blessings but I don't intend to publicize it. Rather to highlight our lack of appreciation of how blessed our lives are but we  keep wanting more, and even more never seems to be enough.

Let's all start counting those plain, normal things that we get everyday and say Alhamdulillah.