Replace envy with gratitude and your whole life will change– that’s my message to the world.
It’s 12 : 45 PM on day 2958 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, spend time outside, read a Bible verse and do some work
Yesterday I decided that every time I felt envy I would replace envy with gratitude because I know that although there’s a lot I yearn for I am aware of the fact that what I have is what some people pray for.
Nobody’s perfect and that’s okay– that’s what I’m realizing.
It’s 10 : 23 AM on day 2847 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and do some work
This morning as I sat waiting for someone to help me out of the bathroom I thought to myself some people are on the other end of the world and I struggle to get from my bedroom to the bathroom and back I try my hardest every day not to be envious and to instead me grateful but sometimes even despite the fact that I love my life and love helping people I can feel the envy coursing through me and I can hear myself think when is it going to be my turn to go places and do things? I wish I could rid myself of envy completely but I’ve accepted I’m an imperfect human who will periodically feel envious and that’s okay as long as it doesn’t consume me and make me blind to my blessings (of which I have many).
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin
It’s 12 : 24 PM on day 1617 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Jeremiah 34, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing – Google, the 1998 Internet search company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, got its name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed by one hundred zeros after it. – promote my Educate Generations campaign – $1 900 raised so far – feed myself egg with bread for breakfast and continue promoting the campaign – $1 900 raised so far but things are bound to improve there are more generous people I just have to find them 🙂
Yesterday I felt like someone was being envious and so I said in part when you envy you’re saying what God has given you is not enough it’s so true we feel envious when we count other people’s blessings instead of our own.
“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature
It’s 4 : 04 PM on day 1561 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, read Isaiah 46, publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself egg curry with bread for breakfast, promote my Educate Generations campaign– Simon Magid who has donated before donated $25 yesterday (thank you Simon your ongoing support means the world to me) which brings my total raised to $1 215 only $1 285 more to raise to reach goal 
– and go visiting.
Yesterday I saw someone’s Facebook pictures and I felt slightly envious but now I realize that although I may never get to see the whole world God is opening new worlds for other people through me which makes me happy.