Mine is not really a gift as in a present from someone, but a gift in life. For many years, I could not see past the negative experiences and see the lights at the end of the tunnel. I could dwell in misery or feel depressed for a long time. Although the experiences I had were traumatizing, at some point, when I started writing to be exact. I started to heal little parts of these traumas just by sharing the story. The best part of this was that I noticed the tone in my writings change from anger and grief to seeing the positive things that happened afterwards. The grief for the traumas never disappeared but the ability to not let it ruin my life anymore and live my life by focusing on the positive and what I could control myself,has given me the ability to see things from a positive perspective, the glass is not half-empty but half-full. For as long as I remember, if something negative/stressful happened, I immediately started to feel negative, rather than thinking in solutions. Now that this has changed, this feels like a huge gift as its helping me deal with many life situations in a much better way.