Am I too positive?!!

[Ratatouille76]

Basically I try to have a really positive attitude to life. I'm really grateful for my family, my home, friends, my health, a job I love, my children are healthy my marriage is good. I really try to appreciate stuff and not take things for granted. But my parents will say well you need a new bathroom or a decent car, etc, etc. Course in an ideal world those things would be nice but we can't afford it and I genuinely don't mind. I would love to win the lottery as much as the next person but I read on here about couples that can't have children or their children are ill or they have a chronic illness and I just feel incredibly gratefully. It could all change so quickly. My parents take the piss out of my attitude to life but are they just being very materialistic or should I be wanting more? My mother will say don't think you deserve the best of everything and I will say no actually I don't. No more than anyone else!

I can be guilty for feeling pretty negative, and comparing what I have to others.

Then I spoke to a homeless man who is regularly outside my local supermarket. He was made homeless during the Beast from the East last year. He told me he was alone, and crying, and too scared to go to sleep in case he died during the night. That put things in perspective for me. He’s so positive despite his situation.