My husband is smart and doesn’t mind doing the washing-up. Theoretically I knew that I had many reasons to be grateful at home. So I decided it was time to start appreciating the husband I had,' said Janice (pictured at an awards dinner with her husband Ron) 'When you expect everything, it’s hard to be grateful for anything. Like Michelle, perhaps I too could avoid the wrinkles in life by focusing more on the joys. 'So I get up with a purpose in life and try to stay away from mirrors!’ she told me, focusing only on the positive aspects of getting older. I have a wonderful family and a handful of really close friends. The gift is to capture what you have when you have it. Instead she remembered being terrified and insecure during every moment of that photo shoot and was glad to be so much more confident now.ĭifferent moments in life bring different reasons to be grateful. ‘My breasts were very perky then, weren’t they?’ she said, smiling wryly at the picture of herself in a revealing dress.īut she didn’t look back at her younger self with envy. We looked together at a photograph of her at the age of 25, when she starred with Al Pacino in Scarface.
#Any way you slice it we are thankful for you skin#
She was still extraordinarily beautiful in her mid-50s, but she admitted that it was easy to yearn for the days when she had flawless skin and a perfectly taut body. I remember writing a magazine story on Michelle Pfeiffer and asking her how she felt about getting older. You have to stop and really make yourself feel it. That requires active emotional involvement. Instead, grateful people make sure they see the good in whatever they have. Gratitude is an attitude, which isn’t dependent on good things happening to you. Yet one study after another has connected gratitude to higher levels of happiness and lower levels of depression and stress. We know we should be grateful, but something holds us back because, in general, negative events tend to overshadow the more positive ones.
Most of us suffer from a huge gratitude gap. Instead, grateful people make sure they see the good in whatever they have,' said Janice Kaplan (pictured on a family trip to Florence) 'Gratitude is an attitude, which isn’t dependent on good things happening to you.
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