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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?

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Post by dotcoma »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #18
croo wrote: post #16

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You can be thankful for stuff without any deity or higher being in your life. If you must have someone to articulate it you can thank to fate, chance, blind luck, other people or your past self to brought you to the things, places, events, persons you are thankful for. In my experience it's a good exercise to introduce positive thoughts in life. I also like to think about the good things that happened to me on the en…

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Also: not (imho) who you should be thankful to, but what you should be thankful for.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?

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Post by gautamsomani »

I am thankful for my Father introducing me to a variety of school books and helping me inculcate the habit of reading. Whatever I am today, is due to my reading habit. In school I read a lot about Science and Scientists and their lives. Helped me develop non-linear ways of thinking which has helped me grow in my career and be exceptional in thinking of weird but effective solutions.

Also grateful to all my mentors, especially 2, both my seniors in my 1st job, who instead of answering my complex questions asked me to search on the net (way back in 2004 when the internet was lot more cleaner and less noisy.) Due to this sometimes I learned things which even they didn't know. God bless them you too, Somesh Sir and Manish Sir. Am not still not a graduate but yet know more than my peers due to this habit you guys inculcated in me.

And am grateful for humanity to be on the path of peace and progression. Had I had been born 100 years earlier, would have been dead in some stupid battlefield fighting for some stupid purpose (please don't argue with me on this.)

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

dotcoma wrote: post #20
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #18

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I used to be like you, and I respect your opinion, and while I still do not believe in any higher power, I have come to realise that gratitude — for being born on planet Earth, and in a developed country, and not on Mars, if for no other reason — is powerful and helps me whine less, work more, have a more positive attitude and think about what I can do for others.

I just can't bring myself to do that seeing the absurdity of the universe. You have to willingly delude yourself.

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

Though I am poor have hungered for many things, I've never known hunger of the belly. For that, I am very thankful.

I am thankful for my favorite piece of technology: plumbing. I also appreciate that it's quite simple and probably the most useful technology available to me. When people squabble and salivate for the latest glitz and gadgets, when I find myself doing the same, I am reminded of the infinitely more useful, simple, and life-changing technology that is modern plumbing.

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Post by zybftjmvs »

savgore wrote: post #8

My partner. She continues to be my best friend, my most trusted advisor, my team mate, my teacher, and my moral inspiration. I love her dearly, she's incredibly principled, and absolutely hilarious. We're trying to save up to buy a house together currently and I am so very thankful I've found someone I feel so relaxed with - enough to start planning together into the future.

I have come to appreciate the view that a good partner is one that brings you peace.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?

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Post by shyn3 »

savgore wrote: post #8

My partner. She continues to be my best friend, my most trusted advisor, my team mate, my teacher, and my moral inspiration. I love her dearly, she's incredibly principled, and absolutely hilarious. We're trying to save up to buy a house together currently and I am so very thankful I've found someone I feel so relaxed with - enough to start planning together into the future.

Wait till next year for a house. The market crushes fools in love
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