This Saturday 28th November 8-9 PM on It’s A Question Of Balance with Ruth Copland, with Thanksgiving just behind us, we consider ‘Can Gratitude Be an Attitude of Life?’ Social psychologist Erich Seligmann Fromm said “Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing, or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” Have you ever been going through hard times but made yourself focus on the good things? How hard is it to change our perspective and see our cup as half full rather than half empty – particularly when we are faced with a challenging situation in our lives? If we manage to do it on a regular basis does it make a difference to how we feel? Part of the criticism of a positive, grateful approach is that it stops people dealing with life as it really is. But who determines how life ‘really is’ do you think? Perhaps the whole point of the gratitude philosophy is that in the end life is about perspective and thus the same experience can be received completely differently depending on how we view it?
What do you think? Ruth Copland gets the views of people on the street for our Out and About feature. Join us on Saturday 8-9 PM! For more info on the show and to hear past shows visit www.itsaquestionofbalance.com
