There is a difference between being grateful and be conformist?

jadnven (66)in #art • 7 years ago (edited)

There is a difference between being grateful and be conformist.

This article is originated after a conversation he had a family during lunch, at that time I heard a teenager with her mom saying the following.

That Teenager: "exclaimed," Mom this situation has me crazy, I don't know what to do.

The Mother: Daughter, you should give thanks to God for what you have, because there are thousands of people in this world dying of hunger, homeless people wandering the streets, sick in hospitals and all kinds of calamities.

The teen responds, mom the unfortunate situation of these people in the world wakes me a deep feeling of gratitude for the positive things in my life, but of that reflection does not indicate that you may need to give up my aspirations or that I am happy with what I have.

After having heard that conversation led me to think that there are people who relate the conformity with the gratitude, therefore i have to do a little research and to reflect on the importance of these terms. To give depth to the article i have taken two concepts on these variables, then presented.

we understand by CONFORMISM?

CONFORMISM

According to DefinicionABC

conformism is an abstract term that is used to refer to the attitude that a human being can have in the life and the different situations that we live day to day. The idea of conformism comes from the adjective "satisfied".

What we mean by appreciation?

THANKS

According to DefinicionABC

gratitude is the feeling of gratitude that is experienced as a result of having received from someone something that was expected or required, having been helped in some difficult circumstance, among other situations.

Understanding this, I can say that the conformism is given by oneself, is a reflection of what one is willing to have or not. In contrast, the appreciation is what one expects or receives from an external factor and of which we have no control.

An everyday example that we can see in our society is the need for a worker to be promoted, here in this case, if the worker is not in accordance with the current position in spite of being thankful, he is going to generate a greater effort to achieve a long-awaited promotion, it is going to take a more committed to create better expectations about their abilities, i.e. by more grateful than this the worker with his salary, his nonconformity leads him to create a better situation.

In summary, it can be said that: One can Be grateful but uncomfortable at the same time, perhaps this reflection can be given to all those who think as the mother of the teenager.