Appreciate What You Have

It's been a while since I shared some of my advice and experiences with you, simply because I felt I had nothing that would be of any use to you. But now, I'm back with advice that could probably be the most helpful piece of advice I have given you so far.

It's very important to appreciate what you have. It's easy to dream about things that you don't have, can't have, will never have. It will only get you down. It's much more difficult, but also much more important, to accept and be happy with the things you do have or the things that are within your reach. Sometimes, if you keep dwelling on the things that you will never have, and they make you genuinely unhappy, it's even more difficult to even realise what you have.

Like in the winter, I get a bit down when mates are going skating and going to the pub to have drinks afterwards and I can't go because I'm in a wheelchair. But then I realise that these same friends will be around the next day to catch a film with me, or go shopping in the freezing cold with me. Just one of the many examples of the things that could easily go unnoticed. Don't let them. Look around you and see what you have. Enjoy it. Appreciate it.