Do You Feel Grateful When Paying Your Bills?

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Okay this may sounds like an oxymoron to feel grateful about paying ones bills.....but. .... This discussion I think was inspired by a fellow mylotter, who admitted that at the beginning of the month when she has to pay her bills, meaning she has to go to the bank to get the funds for her bills, she gets stressed out thinking of needing to go out and do these errands. Now I think everyone of us may grumble about paying our bills, especially during these times. Oh, wouldn't it be great instead of using that money for paying bills we could have it all for ourselves and whoop and party it up...buy silly, nonsensical extravagances, dance til dawn and paint the town red, so to say..LOL. Instead we're "stuck" with the bills to be paid. Our grumbling is especially valid in these economic times, when our costs of living has skyrocketed...our utility bills may have soared, the cost for fuel for cars has soared, even food prices have gone up so our food budget money may not stretch the way it once did. I receive SSI benefits, and admittedly am barely squeaking by. I do earn a little extra income during the month by my article writing and it too goes for bills. So yes, I could grumble, get into a panic and get stressed out...but being the rather cockeyed optimist I view it a different way. Yes the optimist in me, gives gratitude to the benefits I do receive. I'm not able to work outside of my home, which is why I receive those benefits in the first place. When the beginning of the month rolls round and I get my benefits in, I'm grateful...yes very grateful and feel blessed. That money allows me to pay my bills, which in turn keeps a rood over my head, pay my electric bill which allow me to keep my electricity on, and also allows me to be connected to the outside world via my computer, and not to mention allows me to pay for my internet service. I do hope one day to be off my benefits if and when my on-line business plans take root...that is an on-line photography business to sell my images directly to clients in the publishing media. But for now, I'm very grateful for the benefits I do receive. I remember reading long time ago, in several inspirational type books, the concept of feeling gratitude for the money you have to pay your bills. That when you fill out and sign a check for a bill, to not only feel grateful that you at least have the means to pay it, but bless that check....yes bless it, rather than grumble, curse and swear...LOL So. Do you feel "gratitude" that while, of course, you may wish to be earning or having more money, that you have the funds for life's basic needs? Or....do you get stressed out, annoyed, grumble and bellyache? Me? I rather feel gratitude.