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Ask HN: What are you grateful for?
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#22My client had most of their money in Silicon Valley Bank. If there had been any haircut they would have (appropriately) put their employee payroll first. That was a scary time!
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#23I’m grateful this year of endless death and disability of loved ones is over. Surely 2024 will be more merciful towards the people I care about
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#24I’m grateful to be employed again. Was laid off in August, and without work for the first time in over twenty years. I’ve learned that I do not do well without work, especially given that my career field is more mission-driven than money-driven.
I’m grateful that I made connections who jumped to help once I got over feeling like I shouldn’t, and I’m grateful that my time without work was blessedly short, compared to others.
I’m grateful that I’ll have the opportunity to pay it forward for a few people in January, and I hope that I can find other ways to help folks beyond that.
And I’m grateful that I won whatever genetic lottery left me with no chronic issues, with the ability to run fast, and heal quickly from injury.
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#25This is an excellent question, and one that I think we should ask ourselves, every day.
Most times, I think we can usually come up with something.
I knew a guy that used to say “If you’re having trouble feeling grateful, start by being grateful that you’re not on fire, and work your way up, from there.” This was a chap who had, at one time, been on fire (and had the scars to show it).
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#26I'm grateful for my kids, my wife, and that both our parents are alive. I am grateful to work on projects I enjoy and to have the means to pay for my kids' schooling and for yearly health screenings.
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#27That when I got laid off this year, I had sensed the unease beforehand and saved up a grip of cash so I could weather my current bout of unemployment.
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#28I lost my wife to cancer this year. It is heartbreaking and tragic on every level. I feel like a part of me died with her. I thought we’d beat it and was in shock when she passed - I don’t remember a month.
But still, I’m profoundly grateful for my friends, family and colleagues who have been there for my son and I in every sense of the word. Even in sadness and despair, i feel attuned to the light.
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#29I'm grateful for my kids, my wife and her family that are so welcoming and accepting of me, and that we can live in a place with a low crime rate and clean drinking water.
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#30I’m grateful that my wife last CT-PET scan was clean. I am also grateful to have a gold plated drugs insurance plan that reimburse drugs that the public system doesn't... without that she would probably be dead. I am grateful for my colleagues who covered for my diminished mental abilities (the trimestrial scans after a cancer recurrence are always nerve wreaking) and provided emotional support while we were awaiting…
You're not the only one grateful for successful cancer treatments this year. They really ought to be more broadly available than they are, and the constant nickeling and diming by the insurance companies over the course of the year is something for which I am distinctly not grateful. Also, my employer not firing me for being distracted whilst my wife was in treatment is another thing for which I am grateful. New Year's Resolution is to undo the bitrot that incurred and return to the front line of the AI Arms Race.