My top five signature strengths, according to the UPENN authentic happiness questionnaire, are: citizenship, vitality, forgiveness/ mercy, appreciation and humor.
The strength that I am going to elaborate on is Appreciation; a feeling of being grateful for something, the act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their proper value.
I have been going through quite a hard time lately, having one of my best friends diagnosed with cancer, dealing with a medical condition myself, and on top of that starting school and a new and very demanding job, I felt a little over-whelmed. Last week my cousin, who is also my closest friend, texted me asking whether I would like to go out and I replied that I was already