I am so blessed

It is interesting how much everyone (including myself) complains about how rough their life is, when really it isn't rough at all. I know that I have had a few rough spots in my life, but nothing compared to the people around me. For the most part, I am completely healthy. I am pretty smart and I know how to solve general problems in my life. My family loves me. I have friends. I may have lost my mom, but I at least have my family and all my relatives who are willing and able to help me out if I asked. I already have a job ready for me when I graduate. I am graduating from college. I am not in debt. I am generally happy in life. Sheesh. My life is probably the easiest for anyone to live in.

I have always known most of these things, but it really brings it to home when I am talking to one of my roommates. This girl is absolutely wonderful. She is generally always happy, always helping out others. Everyone who sees us together thinks that we are sisters (it helps that we both have the same interests and come from large families, she is the 4th of 12). She is smart and has been working here for a while. Unfortunately though, her life has had tons of problems. She was previously married, but divorced because her husband had some issues. She started dating someone about a year ago, but her mother decided that he was the spawn of satan (or something in those terms) and so she and her mother have not been on good speaking terms ever since then. Also, her dad got really sick a year ago and has had other issues. About a week ago her parents recently decided to get a divorce. Her siblings are having to decide which parent that they support, thus determining who goes with which parent (there are 8 kids still at home). To add to that, her relatives generally hate her family and none of them are helping them out through this situation. While this is all happening at home, she is stuck here because of work and so can't go home to help her siblings (she is basically like our "bignlittlesis" when it comes to roles in the family), or even take a break to deal with her own emotions. Compared to her life my life is absolutely heavenly.

So, now that I am reaffirming that I am blessed, the big question I want to know is why I am so blessed. People around me talk about all the trials that they have had, and yet looking at my life, I really haven't had very many. Why? Is my life always going to be this peachy, or am I being blessed now because Heavenly Father knows that I will have rough times later? Or, as trueblat puts it, I have trials, but refuse to accept them as trials and work through them. What ever it may be, I still know that I am very blessed in everything that I have and do, and I need to remind myself of that. In the meantime, I am just working on being there for my roommate and helping her as much as I can. Gosh, I would hate to be in her position in life.