Try it. Be somebody who considers every God-given gift a curse...at the same time..floats around aboard happy thoughts.
See graces as something to give back. Everyday for Peter Parker is a tossup between his need to earn a living delivering pizzas to finance his studies and to give up both, at any time, to be the friendly neighborhood savior. He does so since he has vowed to use his abilities for others, seeing everyone as his own Uncle Ben to rescue from a gunshot. But note that for us, we too have unique abilites that give us relative advantage to help others. And to these others, we must show care for as our own respected Uncle Bens, cherished Aunt Mays, and beloved Mary Janes.
But do this altruism the Neverland style. Peter Pan teaches us to feel happy first before we attempt to fly. Resolve to have contentment first before we aim for any lofty plans in life. Often, we write our fairy tales as adventurers who toil for most of their lives in order to live happily ever after in the end. Hence, we fail to pause a few seconds a day and deprive ourselves of the simple joys of everyday in order to finish our course, have a job, and then beat the competition before we allow ourselves to revel in a great career. The unsatiation to get to a fixed dream distances us from helping people into helping ourselves too much.
The goal here is to make us happy super heroes of everyday. The fitting words actually come from that cool Sarah McLachlan phrase: ordinary miracle today. Indeed, it is not that unusual when everything is beautiful as when we help others while smiling.
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