It's so very easy to gripe and complain,
To dwell on your sorrows or maybe your pain.

To start every day with a feeling so blue,
Wondering why life is unfair to you.

It's also so easy to feel all alone,
To think no one else knows the heartache you've known.

It's easy to look in the mirror and see,
A person whose luck is as bad as can be.

But looking at things in a whole other light,
Can make all your problems seem ever so light.

If you start every day with a really big smile,
If you do what you need to with grace and with style.

If you think how much worse that your life could have been,
If you take just one frown and turn it into a grin.

If you see someone else whose much worse off than you,
Yet they seem to be happy,that should give you a clue.

How easy it is to forget what we've got,
To dwell almost always on what we have not.

But practicing how to be thankful for things,
Makes it easy to face life and all that it brings.

I'm not saying it's easy to hold up your chin,
To not feel discouraged and throw the towel in.

But counting your blessings instead of your woes,
Brings new comfort and hope to your life, Heaven knows.

Find something good about every new day,
Find something positive that you can say.

No matter how trivial,little or small,
Even if you think it's not much at all.

A small thing today and another tomorrow,
Will add up and grow till it lightens your sorrow.

Each day becomes easier and then you'll see,
A smile in the place where a frown used to be.