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All It Takes Is A Simple Thank You.
Submitted by: Molly M.
EnglandI am an 18 year old student, who should never forget that I will always have the power to change and be better!
I have known about The Secret for over a year now and try to apply it to my life everyday. However, some days there is nothing in me that says “Be positive, look for something to be grateful for, remember The Secret!”.
I’m studying at college and currently have no friends. I do not feel I belong, fit in or am accepted. Not even in my smallest of classes with only 8 people in it. My misery, pessimism and negativity has most certainly gotten the better of me for quite some months now. And, surprise, surprise, it has just been getting worse. My relationship with my one and only friend has been crumbling and I have felt almost helpless in trying to rectify it. My health has been very poor, and I as a whole, have not been myself.
At college, I speak to no one, I sit by myself, alone, in a very defensive stance and probably a rather miserable face on. I study drama, (that’s my class of 8), and I love it so much, partly because it’s the only time I actually get any human interaction throughout my day. However, as soon as the drama stops, so does the human interaction. My mood could have been climbing in that lesson, but as soon as it ends, it drops.
I have been battling with myself on what I should do, why is this happening, why can’t someone make the first step to talk to me or invite me to lunch. “That’s it” I thought. It is ME. I must change, I must begin to actually try before I can make a difference. So that is what I have been doing.
Last week, my drama had an extra class where we were left to our own devises to rehearse. These extra classes in the past had proved to be awful experiences for me because, whilst everyone was laughing and talking together, I was the fool that sat there by my self.
However, the day before, I had spoken about how awful I was feeling and how awful college made me feel, with my mum, a firm believer of The Secret. She said “Just say thank you, thank you, thank you for a wonderful day”.
So, on the bus to college I said it and thought nothing more. The extra class came, I had no feelings of dread, I was just simply going to my class. It was like a 360 degree turn. My awful day just yesterday had changed 100% the very next day.
Everyone spoke to me, had jokes with me, and I was happy. For the first time I felt accepted.
Since that day, I say all my “Thank you, thank you, thank you’s” for the next day and repeat them again the next morning. What a difference it has made! Not only a difference in how people treat me, but a difference in what I do to make them treat me nicely.
Because I am on a happier frequency, I can be happy around them, which thus makes them want to be around me.
It is truly amazing. Each day I have found something that someone else has done, that I have found bizarre because it was something so friendly and nice. All I think is, wow, thank you!
Nothing will change unless YOU take the steps to changing it. All it takes is a simple thank you.