Extraordinarily grateful for my wife and little one.
Ask HN: What are you grateful for?
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#42I'm grateful to have parents who in their age, have energy, health and financial freedom to join us for celebrations from overseas. I'm grateful for my parents to be friends to me and all my friends.
As someone said here, I'm extremely grateful for free quality higher education I have received in my home country. And I'm saddened that many are in student debts for decades.
I'm grateful to be in the best health I've been in last 10 years.
I'm grateful to myself for quitting alcohol more than a year ago and sticking with it.
I'm grateful, for the first time, to feel financially stable for many years to come.
I'm grateful to United States of America for being our home and safe harbor for the past 10 years, especially last 3, given the global instability.
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#43Grateful for my health and family, as imperfect as they may be.
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#44I 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.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find the fortitude to get over it.
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#45I'm really grateful for the gift of life, my family, parents etc. I'm full of hope and optimism that 2024 will be even better.
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#46This 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).
Some years ago, a dude set himself on fire in front of my town's city hall.
It was a difficult year, and people took to the streets all over the country. They were not as divided by all the polarizing shit on the Internet yet.
So, early in the morning, this guy goes up to city hall with a can of gas. Cops come up to him, ask what he's doing. He says he's gonna set himself on fire unless the protesters' demands are met. I think that included the mayor's resignation, and rescinding the extortionate utility bills that everyone got that winter.
So the cops poured his can of gas all over him and lit the match. By the time I got to the hospital to donate blood, he had already left this pathetic excuse for a world to its own devices.
Well, a world where this shit happens isn't getting any gratitude from me, that's for sure.
Gets weirder.
Both his first name, and his last name, were rooted in our language's word for "fire". "Nomen est omen", as they say. Was he perhaps a pyromaniac, or destined to die by fire? Or did he never exist in the first place, the whole story being an early artifact of political technology, disseminated in order to get the mayor to resign (so that a guy who was actually good at graft could be elected)?
A world where I can't even be sure this shit really happened or some ad guys made up his entire story out of whole cloth to influence public opinion, isn't getting any gratitude from me, either. And idk if anyone's noticed, but that's the kind of world we've all been living in for some time.
So, if I ever caught fire, I would be grateful if the people who came to pour more fuel would at least be honest with themselves about what they're doing. And not frantically try to get me to convince them that they're actually pouring water, or ask me to justify the undesirability of being on fire in the first place. Because I've noticed a lot of people tend to do exactly that, any time someone is experiencing any form of suffering less obvious than being literally on fire.
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#47I'm lucky to be alive, grateful for family, friends, and a career.
Thankful that I get to spend time away from work and enjoy holidays.
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#48that my wife and kids are alive and healthy, anything else is just icing on the cake for me.
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#49This 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).
Some years ago, a dude set himself on fire in front of my town's city hall. It was a difficult year, and people took to the streets all over the country. They were not as divided by all the polarizing shit on the Internet yet. So, early in the morning, this guy goes up to city hall with a can of gas. Cops come up to him, ask what he's doing. He says he's gonna set himself on fire unless the protesters' demands are me…
Dude sounds like you need to take a hiking trip or something. If local politics bugs you to the point of thinking the entire world deserves no gratitude you gotta ease up a bit or somethin homie.
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#50Im super grateful for family, especially nieves and nephews. Being an uncle has been such a joy.
I am grateful that in the last year, due to a particularly insightful HN comment, I was able to kick a couple pretty nasty habits and my health and mental stability is improving greatly as a result.