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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

With regards to HN: I'm thankful for HN being an example where the comments are often really insightful, useful and interesting. There are so many places on the internet where the comment sections are cesspools. HN makes an effort to be different and it's working.

On a more personal level: I'm thankful for having had the opportunities in life to achieve all my goals. For being born in a safe and stable country with great healthcare (could have been dead a couple of times now) and other social securities. For being married to a great wife who makes me happy and who makes marriage seem almost effortless. And most of all I'm thankful for my kids. They truly made my life complete.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

Cateract surgery.

I watched myself slowly going blind over several months. But at the end of it, whenever I chose, I could say, "That's enough - time for surgery" instead of just being blind for the rest of my life.

Seeing is really cool, people. It's a really major deal. Once you think about what it means to not have it, you really value having it.

Walking is a big deal, too. I'm thankful that my boss left that dolly where it could just barely catch the edge of that falling box with 600 pounds of steel in it, so that it didn't absolutely crush my foot. (It tore through the cardboard, slowly, so it landed on my foot as a slowly increasing load instead of as a sudden jolt. That was plenty painful enough, but it didn't crush all the bones in the arch of my foot.)

Walking, again - that falling 30 feet off a cliff didn't cripple me or kill me.00

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by abdussamit »

Growing up, I used to disagree with how my parents used to think about things, and I also used to call them out (maybe I kept that in my heart mostly out of respect) whenever they did something wrong. That was because I never perhaps knew how some parents were?

Because as I grew, went to high-school and then at job, I saw people who had an abusive father, a drug-addict sibling, or a controlling mother. And now, I realise how difficult it must have been for my parents to show us the best version of themselves e.g. my mother cooks food, takes care of us and my father worked in Libya for 30 years as a software engineer away from us only to supply us financially. It must never have been easy.

I'm not saying they're perfect, God no one is. But the fact that I can see at my parents as a moral compass for myself whenever I get stuck helps me a lot. Some of you who read might not be religious but I'm thankful that my parents gave us the right knowledge of religion and not just giving knowledge but telling us about the 'why'.

My father has told me two things his entire life: 1. do your best effort at opportunities (I don't mind if you fail as long as you work hard) 2. don't cheat your way to success

So, yeah, I'm sorry if this seems irrelevant but just wanted to share my side of the story about why I'm thankful.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by burfog »

I'm thankful that the price of gasoline has dropped down to about $2 in much of the USA, in some cases even below. Tulsa is getting it for $1.90 now. It all feels like I'm seeing prices from the prior century.
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