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With Gratitude
Submitted by: Shelley Komonosky
Lumsden, SK CanadaI am a 45 year old mother of two, married nineteen years. I live in a small town in a beautiful valley where I own a boutique store.
I have lived a Secret life for a long time, I just didn’t know it. I thought that how I lived my life was due to my mom’s good values in raising me, and setting an example of how to be a good person, and it was, but after finding “The Secret” it became clearer to me that I had been living my life based on the principles in this book without knowing it. It felt like someone was inside my head, writing down how I thought. It gave me goosebumps, and I read the entire book in one session. I couldn’t get through it fast enough and when tears were streaming down my cheeks as I read, I knew I had found something special.
I have not had an easy upbringing. I was raised by a loving mother who had to do the journey of my childhood without a partner to help. She blessed me with so much love. Early on I learned that the things in life weren’t what was important, because we had very few of those – it was the relationships that were the real treasures. I was thankful for anything I had and always seemed to be blessed by loving friends. I thought it was just luck. I now understand that it was the Universe returning my energy back to me.
I believed from early on that paying a compliment, helping someone, and being a good person in the world cost me nothing, yet I knew it created more good in my own life. I still carry this belief with me to this day.
I continue to live a blessed life. The gifts I value the most are the people I am surrounded by, who by sharing my life journey with me give me more wealth than they will ever know. It is with gratitude that I choose to see my life this way, no matter what.