Love your country.
It’s a fact: to be happy, you must be grateful.
That means you’re thankful for all the good things in your life.
Now here’s my theory: this includes your country.
Be grateful for your country and you’ll be happy.
INDEPENDENCE DAY PARTY POOPERS
Saturday was the 4th of July in the U.S.
It’s a big deal.
And this year’s 4th was an even bigger deal because it was our 250th anniversary.
Since I spent this 4th far from home, my thoughts kept traveling across the ocean as I wondered what I was missing.
So I checked out the news on YouTube.
I watched a CNN reporter complain about the president’s choice of events for the 4th of July.
I watched the mayor of New York City give a Fourth of July speech and trash his fellow Americans.
Finally, I read a July 4th poll that revealed fewer and fewer Americans are proud of their country.
Good grief!
These people can’t be happy.
Loving your country is a choice.
And it’s a selfish choice.
Because if you make this choice, you’ll be practicing gratitude, which means you’ll be practicing being happy.
And I don’t care how dark your country’s past was — every country has skeletons in its closet — you can find something good about your country if you want to.
Do that, and you’ll be happier.
Make sense?
Happy Monday!
-Mr. Vig
P.S.
Let’s practice!
Go to the comments section and tell me one reason why you love your country.
I promise, you’ll feel happier after you do it.
I love my country and I’m proud to be Hungarian, because of the famous scientists, the excellent athletes, and first of all I love the Hungárián cartoon art.
There are many things that I can say I love my country but one is here’s the place where my ancestors lived.
Today, my country celebrated Poetry and Summer Day. And it was dedicated to one of our country’s most significant poets. His name is Eino Leino. Many of his poems evoke the Finnish summer—its brightness and its brevity—and the harmony between nature and humanity. I don’t know a single Finn who doesn’t love his poems. They were born out of love for this country.
I love my country (Latvia) because of its nature, flexibility of people and capabilities to achieve big goals with quite limited resources. The Flow-the animation movie 🎥 is a great example of that.
I love my country because everybody which i love lives here. And people in my country are great, especially in bad times (politicans are excluded). And beautynes of the nature are exeptional. I spent all my life here and don’t want to live anywhere else.
Lithuania is very green, clean and fresh. The best place to live and come back after holiday)
Naturally, it was kind of work to fall in love with my country with its awful history, and all guilt my and the following generations had to bear, accept and transform. I will never forget the xmas days on Bondi Beach in the 80ies when all the international backpackers had stuck little flags in the sand, except of us Germans. There was no single German flag, we still felt ashamed, there was no proud. The change of this feeling started in 2006 at the World Soccer Cup when Germany showed how much it had changed. Such it started to become proud of this country and its great transformation into one of the most solid democracies. That of course creates happiness and kind of loving feelings. So I only hope that we will withstand the current storm, based on all those crises the world is faced with, and to critically question the easy solutions some leaders are promising.
There are many reasons I love my beautiful homeland, Bulgaria, but if I had to choose only one, it would be the climate, with all 4 seasons ~🌷☀️🍂❄️~ to enjoy throughout my life’s journey…
Hello, Mr Vig. I hope you are well.
I love my country because his history, because his different kind of people and culture. How we say, Spain is different, don’t we?
Thanks you very much.
Have a good day.
I love my country, first of all, because here I’ve received a lot of love and here I’ve learned to love. From here on the list of reasons is long.
I’m grateful for my country for welcoming my grand-parents when they came from Italy.
France gave them the opportunity to integrate perfectly into society and raise their children ( my parents ) with good values and freedom.
things happened, but it’s not right to write the story with the power as the owner of power wants, and when it happened, I think it’s a great choice to leave if things don’t go in the right way and the land are full of skeletons only to make the some people unable to run, it’s easy to understand, look at the cross and you can understand what I want to say
I love my country, because of the smell of home, because my family is here, because my friends are here. I know people, places, cities, mountains, lakes, rivers, roads. I like everything in my country.
I’m from Spain and I like people, weather, gastronomy, beaches, basketball team…
I love my homeland because of my ancestors, with whom I feel a deep connection. I admire their wisdom, courage, calm mind and determination that they were able to create our own Estonian state. They preserved our own language, rich culture and left us a small but beautiful country where it is peaceful to live.
My cauntry – Slovakia is small, but we have old history with a lot castle, rural villages which are writed in Heritage UNESCO. Recently jul 5. we had a state celebrate – Holyday st.Cyril and Metod. Those men came from Byzancia in 9. century and brought to us first script – Hlaholica. My cauntry has beautifull rich folklore from a lot regions. Rural folk dance and music is beautifull and unique. Our nation is patient and hardwork. We have master of world in skying ( Petra Vlhová) cycling ( Peter Sagan) also many hockey players are in NHL. Suceed an architect Hudec disegned a building of bank in Shang Hay. We have across cauntry high a mountains, lands, lakes and a lot caves. Also a many spa baths. I apreciate a lot things and therefor I like my state.