Counting Blessings - Reflections

As I started to count my blessings, I realized that I had some confusion about the distinction between blessings and good luck.

Counting Blessings should be about things that we have; that we may or may not have taken for granted.

It should not about events that will make you happy, eg. payday is coming, I'm going to Spain. These are future events, and our state of happiness should be dependent on our current state, and not on our future state. (I feel) these events merely masks the unhappy feeling that we may currently have, so that we may look forward to an event in the future, that may make us happy. (or maybe I'm writing this because of my current state of emotion). Maybe it is simply a matter of sentence structure, but doesn't our perception shapes our sentence structure?

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. We should be feeling content because of what we have, and not because of what we are going to have. Also, while it's true that I'm glad that payday is coming, what happens after that? Do I look forward to the next payday? And what do I do from now till the next payday? Continue to look for events that will make me feel good?

In short, it is important to define blessings, not for the sake of being technically precise, but for the simple reason that our perception of happiness might be twisted if we defined it incorrectly. (Eg. I'm very happy because my paycheck is very big.)

One small distinction though. I feel that current/future events of my friends do count as blessings, for good things that happened, or going to happen, to my friends make me happy too.