All of mankind is born with needs. Our mothers are the first with whom we bond in order to have those needs met. In a general sense, we become thankful for the love and nourishment we receive, and we return that love with more need. Eventually though we must become accountable, and when that happens we realize how much that love and nourishment meant to our early life. True there are abusive relationships that make for a negative result, but that does not stop our need. It is our need for love, acceptance and the companionship of like minded people that then begins to drive that need.
As we mature there dawns on us the realization of a state of thankfulness that we derive from these associations. We may not become aware of it at the time but it will manifest itself in our continued need for and satisfaction of that need being met by those with whom we choose to associate. Thank God for our friends. If our state of mind is healthy and we are in right relationship with God, (not having the narcissistic mindset you so aptly described). We will begin to realize that our whole life is to be lived in a thanksgiving state of mind. There was nothing in God’s creation that Adam and Eve were not to be thankful for, Even Jesus when he was baptized and taken into the wilderness to be tempted, exhibited a thankful state of mind, that he had the scriptures to bolster his resistance to Satan. Was that a test from God, or an example to be copied? Are we also tempted in similar fashion? Thank God for his leading. (not into temptation). And for that we are thankful. As well, God knowing that failure is one of our options, provided a way of salvation for each of us, through our Savior Jesus Christ. And for that we are thankful. In fact there is no person place or thing to be encountered in this lifetime of struggle, trial and error, that we as God’s Children can say that we were not thankful for? Even Lazarus in his pitiful state of life, shared the Joy of it all. When it was all said and done. I believe he too had a thanksgiving state of mind
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