Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

I'm grateful for my friends and family (most especially my wife, and my parents who brought me up right), and that I'm fortunate enough to have interests + skills that happen to be very lucrative. Most of all, I'm thankful that God continues to be good to me, and has never given up on me even at my lowest moments.

I'm grateful for my family, for my Mom, for the peace we're in. I'm grateful that I have the means to work out, to read books I want to read, and to rest when I need to. It's an incredible privilege. May you all be blessed abundantly.

I'm grateful for Hacker News. I'm not that vocal here, but I've lost count of the times HN has become my oasis of peace, no matter how fleetingly, in the periods of high pressure and stress in 2023.

I'm grateful that I am alive, that I can live in a safe environment where my life, well-being is not at risk. (At this time, I'm cognizant of the enormous suffering many people around the world have to endure, mostly human-created and unnecessary.)

I'm grateful for my wife and our wonderful child, and our family. (I am sorry for anyone out there who is lonely and/or has lost anyone recently.)

I'm grateful to be healthy enough to run an ordinary life. (I am sorry for those who suffer from disease or worry about their health.)

I'm incredibly grateful for being permitted to exercise my hobby as my profession, so I don't have to "work". (I wish everyone success in finding work, and finding meaning in what they do, who are currently unemployed or dread their jobs.)

I'm grateful for my education, which was free of charge and at the same time benefitted from top institutions and top teachers, despite not coming from a privileged background (well, relative to Western European standards). (I feel sorry for people who have to go into debt to get an education, or for whom an education is out of reach.)

I'm grateful for my personal library and HN to be able to read intellectually stimulating things. (I feel for all the people that have not had the chance to discover the pleasure of reading, or who have not yet discovered Hacker News.)

Just a thought: SOMEONE is grateful to SOMEONE for SOMETHING, it's a ternary predicate. The first slot is filled by you, the last slot is being polled here by this "Ask HN" request; since it's Christmas, think about that middle slot (to WHOM should you be grateful?).

I'm grateful for the little child snuggled up into my armpit sleeping, snoring softly. And my wife, my other child sleeping, and many other things as well