Dear Gratitude Family,

Something magical happened to me that turned an incredibly terrible day around into magic. I suffer from depression and I have been using gratitude to turn it around. It really helps me and so many wonderful things have happened but I do have to stick to the magical practices a lot in order to keep myself from collapsing back into depression.

I had been doing so well lately and then suddenly my mother attacked me via a messaging app in a group chat with my two sisters. She was incredibly hurtful for literally no good reason and she made me feel terrible. We never had much money while I was growing up so now I often feel like I can not justify buying things that I do not need because, it is like I don’t deserve them.

Since I discovered The Secret I have been a lot kinder to myself. After a lot of inner conflict, I booked a flight to Thailand with my boyfriend so that I could finally meet his father. This is the reason I was attacked by my mother. I have not had a holiday since I was about 18 and that was 6 years ago. She made me feel so terrible that I had to leave an important class at Uni because I was crying so much. I called my boyfriend who was away at the moment and I cried some more.

I set off for home still in tears and as I was waiting at a traffic light to cross the road, a voice suddenly said: “Stressed?” I looked around and there was an old man I had not noticed before right next to me. I nodded and we walked across the road, me crying in silence. The man then said: “Everything is going to be OK, I promise.”. When I looked over to him, he was gone. He just seemed to have randomly appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared again. But those words from a random stranger made me feel so much safer and better when I had been so upset. I really believe without a doubt that the Universe had sent him to stop me from falling back into depression. Because, it is  precisely those types of sessions, where my mother attacks me emotionally and my sisters join in, that have been the cause of my depressed phases in my life. I had no idea how to stop it from happening again, but this encounter changed everything! I know that the Universe has my back and everything is going to be alright.

So thank you to the stranger who cared enough to be kind to me while I was standing there crying, thank you Universe for sending him and thank you to whoever reads my story, I hope it makes you feel better as well. Thank you all, I wish you all the health, wealth and happiness in the world.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!.