{"id":8831,"date":"2018-01-29T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:27:56","slug":"just-think-of-the-things-you-are-glad-that-youre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/just-think-of-the-things-you-are-glad-that-youre-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Think Of The Things You Are Glad That You\u2019re Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my luck seems all gone, and I\u2019m down in the mouth,<\/span><\/p>\n

When I\u2019m stuck in the north and I want to go south;<\/span><\/p>\n

When the world seems a blank and there\u2019s no one to love,<\/span><\/p>\n

And it seems even God\u2019s not in heaven above.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve a cure for my grouch and it works like a shot,<\/span><\/p>\n

I just think of the things I am glad that I am not:<\/span><\/p>\n

A bird in a cage, a fish in a bowl<\/span><\/p>\n

A pig in a pen, a fox in a hole<\/span><\/p>\n

A bear in a pit, a wolf in a trap<\/span><\/p>\n

A fowl on a spit, a rug on a lap<\/span><\/p>\n

A horse in a stable, a cow in a shed<\/span><\/p>\n

A plate on a table, a sheet on a bed<\/span><\/p>\n

A case on a pillow, a bell on a door<\/span><\/p>\n

A branch on a willow, a mat on the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then my blues disappear when I think what I\u2019ve got,<\/span><\/p>\n

And quite soon I\u2019ve forgotten the things I have not,<\/span><\/p>\n

When I think of the hundreds of things I might be,<\/span><\/p>\n

I get down on my knees and thank God that I\u2019m me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Elsie Janis<\/span><\/p>\n

What a great way to keep from feeling sorry for ourselves! Just think about all of the things we are glad we are not!<\/p>\n

Our lives could be so much worse than they are, and heaven knows we could all have it so much worse than we currently do. The simple fact is that no matter how bad our lives can get at times there is always someone, somewhere, who has it far worse than we do, and we certainly don’t want to trade places with any of them!<\/p>\n

We are blessed beyond measure to be who we are.\u00a0I thank God that I am me and I thank God that you are you, because let\u2019s face it, you are AWESOME!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n

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When my luck seems all gone, and I\u2019m down in the mouth, When I\u2019m stuck in the north and I want to go south; When the world seems a blank and there\u2019s no one to love, And it seems even God\u2019s not in heaven above. I\u2019ve a cure for my grouch and it works like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,501,500,46,16283,16282,63,245,224,163,96,41,244,65,55,629,38,64,53,153,27,112,16280,16281,16285,16284,14023],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-be-grateful-for-what-you-have","tag-be-grateful-for-who-you-are","tag-blessings","tag-complain","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-culture","tag-entrepreneur","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-inspiration","tag-leadership","tag-life","tag-motivation","tag-positive","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-thank-god-that-im-me","tag-thank-god-you-are-you","tag-the-grass-is-always-greener","tag-the-things-you-dont-have","tag-you-are-awesome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}