A teacher once told me something that I will never forget: that as you get older time starts to get faster, it just escapes you. As I have just turned 20, I feel like time is evaporating into thin air. Days go by, but then suddenly everything is over. A year, a month, a day, an hour seems so much less. I could go on till the dawn of time and never truly express my gratitude for the amazing life I have.

1. Nature

Often little things like nature are overlooked in the whole scheme of things. Fresh air, mountains, beaches, and rivers. All taken for granted, Earth is beautiful. Mother nature created all this amazing landscape to be enjoyed. Which most do not view as something to be thankful for.

2. Friends

You never know what someone is dealing with, so the people who help who overcome adversities deserve the world. So often people get caught up in their own life to care about other people’s problems. Your friends build you up when times are rough, give you a reason to smile again, make you happy when you aren’t yourself. Through the good and bad the people who stick by your side show they are in it for the long run.

3. Family

You probably could not imagine a world with people who do not care about you. Thus, having a family that loves and supports you is rare. They are your backbone at the end of the day. People that will love you no matter what. Cherish and appreciate all they have done for you.

4. Education

If you get the opportunity to get an education you are the lucky one. People are fortunate enough to get an education. No matter what your academic career entails a little goes a long way. Knowledge is power.

5. Health

If you are in good mental and physical health you have nothing to complain about. Your life is set you do not need complain about anything else. Health everyone believes to be such a little factor in life, but once something goes wrong it can cripple and put a standstill on your life.

6. People

How lonely would it be to live in a world without people. Humans are social creatures. Without people, you would not grow in life. People come into your life for a lesson or a blessing. People do not randomly appear into your life, it is meant to be. Fate is a real thing.

7. Music

My life would suck with music. But, to have the means to attend music festivals is something else. Seeing live music is something that everyone should do at least once in their life.

8. Animals

When people fail, animals pick up the pieces. Animals will always be there for you to love and show you endless affection.They ask for nothing in return as well.

9. Adventures

Exploring new and exciting places is what I live for. Life would be so boring if I just continued in the daily grind. Also, adventures are needed to relieve stress.

10. Language

The ability to create something using language is amazing. Writing changed life at the beginning and still does today.

11. Movies

Watching movies is a form of escapism. Getting lost in a plot, escaping from reality for a bit.

12. Children

Seeing the youth so innocent and free from the responsibilities of life is nice. Free from stress and the worries are to come is wonderful. They are not plagued by the evils of the world yet.

13. Books

Books provide ensight to ideas that you cannot fathom. Reading a book is great to get lost in.

14. Laughter

The ability to laugh is something that most people ignore as a common gesture. Laughing makes everything better.

15. Religion

If we lived in a society where people all had to live by the same ideals and religion there would be no diversity of fluidity. People would just be robots. People being able to decide what they want, which gods to worship and how religious or how little they want to practice is a gift.

16. Art

The present of knowing you can create something magnificent is something magnificent.

17. Speech

Speech is something that should never be censored or taken for granted because there are societies today which openly frown a upon freedom of speech.

18. Moon and Stars

The wonderment of something out there is the light in the stars and the moon. It gives people something to believe in.

19. Love

And if you are lucky enough to feel the sensation of love you are the real winner. You do not need anthing more in life. People go wide and far looking for this thing called, “love” search the whole world for a significant other. But, it is right there all around you, your friends, your family. People believe the more you look you’ll find it, but it will come over time. If it is meant to be it will happen. Often people force this ideal of love, when it is not meant to be to suppress other feelings and events.