Posted on 06/28/2021 4:46:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Roman philosopher Cicero once said that gratitude is the parent of all virtues. It’s not difficult to see how this would be true. Gratitude is a virtue which contains many other virtues. In order to be truly grateful to someone, or for something, you must also be humble, prudent and kind. Gratitude is the sister of generosity — the latter in the giving, the former in the receiving. If one is present in an interaction but not the other, there is a risk that soon both will be lost. Anyone who has ever tried to be consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person knows how quickly generosity can morph into resentment if you aren’t careful.
This is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our kids. After you take your child out for ice cream, or to the zoo, or put dinner on the table, there is that common refrain: “What do you say?” The child, prompted, shouts: “Thank you!” One day, hopefully, he will not need to be prompted anymore. In the meantime, you solicit the “thank you” not merely to teach good manners — though that is part of it — but on a deeper level, to inculcate a sense of gratitude in a child who, left to his own devises, will naturally take most things for granted. We teach gratitude not for our sake, but for theirs. Raise your child to be grateful and you will have raised him to be happy, well adjusted, and successful.
It is, then, no surprise that in a country where so many people are angry and depressed, there is also such a catastrophic lack of gratitude. Which brings us, finally, to Olympic athlete Gwen Berry...
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So Obama’s hand took a break?
What they don’t understand is this: The Biden campaign that never was is over. People are seeing what he is doing. They see what a disgusting mess this administration is and how the Trump haters have nothing but this crap
They don’t see that the youngest generation sees this and rolls it’s eyes. They are reactionary conservative. As all young people do the sense hypocrisy and reject it
What these people don’t get is this: Trump is coming back. With 80 million voting supporters who work and pay the taxes all the taxes. They see this and their amazement increases.
Watch what happens.
“In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked Off The Team...”
In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked ...
Men and women track events are about all that’s worthwhile.
Men and women track events are about all that’s worthwhile.
“She dissed her teammates too”
They are white, it came easy.
Once you realize that nothing was happening and everyone was just standing there waiting for the event to begin, where his hands were placed doesn’t really matter. If anything Obama looks more self possessed than the other candidates.
Self-pleasuring
US should adopt International Olympic Committee Rule 50
“No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas”.
Still on probation for the last incident.
so humiliating to we Americans....disgusting.....
this is so totally true.....we are a very unhealthy country but we've allowed our school boards to have crt and condomns on cucumbers, we've allowed our mayors and city councils to change Columbus day to some "indigenous" day, and to pull down real heroes of this nation, and look at our schools.....they're renaming all our grade schools for some tiny pip squeak in history....
Third rate athlete with a huge chip on her shoulder.
Since apparently you're from the area, here is a fun fact: Lake Elsinore is the ONLY God-made lake in SoCal. All others are behind man-made dams.
As I have been saying, we’ve become a very sick country - and in so many ways.
Can't imagine citizens of other nations putting up with it.
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