Moving Forward with Gratitude & Patience via /r/gratitude

I read a post this morning about how someone had achieved everything they wanted last year and hadn’t realised it. Thank you to the poster. It struck me then, I’ve achieved all most of my life’s goals though at the time I had NO CLUE how I’d achieve them and that was while being ungrateful. I’m not ashamed to admit that most of my life I complained about allot, yet I managed to brute force all my goals.  Yet, thinking back on it I have allot to be grateful for.

Retired by 40 – Thank you God, because I retired by 36. Now, I live an easy life in an African country.

Weight Loss – Thank You God, because I’ve lost 65kg with little exercise thanks to carnivore.

Own My House – Thank you God, because I own my own house.

Rental Apartment – Thank you God, because I have a rental apartment.

Delivery – Thank you God, because everything I want is delivered to my door. Which I love, thank you God because I'm a bit of a lazy bum and don't like going out. In fact I ordered groceries with free delivery whilst writing this.

Everything I dreamed about having 5 years ago is mine now. So I get excited, now I’ve learned the power of gratitude, I wonder what wonderful things life will give me. I have a note beside my bed I read every day with a quote from the holy book, 14:7 “If you are grateful, I will CERTAINLY give you more…”. So yeah, things might be slow, but they happen.

The life you’re living today is probably the life you wanted to live 1 year, 5 years or even 10 years ago. There is so much to be grateful for. Yet, we tend to take the good for granted, and complain about the bad. Yet, there are so many blessings. Before I went carnivore, I had trouble breathing. Now, at times when I think about gratitude I realise how precious each breath is. How precious just being alive is. When I moved to Africa, I got sick at least every month. On this wonderful diet, I haven’t been sick once in the past 10 months. Not once! If I eat something bad (because this is Africa), I might get upset stomach for a few hours, but now my body just handles it and after 3 or 4 hours I’m fine.

Look, I’m not trying to claim anything special, but remember how far you’ve come. When you were a kid, you used to look up to the teenagers because they were so confident and strong. Then you looked up to adults who they themselves were confident and strong. Now you’ve grown up (presumably), you have become the thing you always wanted. You CAN eat ice cream for breakfast, and cereal for dinner and stay up till 2am playing video games. What a gifted life, and something you could only dream about as a child.

So, thank you for reading this. Thank you Reddit for hosting this forum. Thank you God for reminding me to be grateful, and for guiding my steps.