I am grateful for the opportunity I have to be grateful (I am alive!).
Every morning, as part of my hygiene, I figure out something I am grateful for. It could be something from day before or anything, I just don't want to repeat and there for be creative! But it help raise awareness not to live life for granted.
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#142I'm thankful for not having to witness the slaughter of natives.
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#143I'm thankful that people want to pay me ludicrous sums of money to do the thing I love. I've seen my friends who have the same passion for art, or literature, or even STEM fields like biology and psychology, struggle to make a living "doing what they love." Many of them end up as baristas and uber drivers while they try to make it in their chosen fields. Me? I went to school for something I found fun. I didn't choose…
Similarly, I’m thankful for my good fortune in going to a high school that offered programming classes; for having enough computer-savviness to become a software developer; that this field is unregulated enough that someone like me can earn an almost-unconscionably-good living doing something that, like you said, would be a hobby anyways. I have my dream job, I have a beautiful son and partner, our family is in good health, and are aware of the areas that we should be working to better ourselves... I just hope to make enough of a positive impact from the incredible head start the universe has given me. I’m thankful for this chance to play the game, and I’m thankful that the game exists to be played.
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#144I have been lucky compared to many most of my life, and I am always thankful for that.
But my 3yo son was diagnosed epilepsy some months ago.
It now seems medicines are effective at keeping him ok and there is a chance he may outgrow it.
I am deeply thankful for that.
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#145I’m thankful for the heart donor who saved my newborn daughter’s life last week. My daughter contracted Coxsackie B enterovirus at 2 weeks old, and it scarred her left ventricle beyond repair. Her donor has given her a second chance. Another family had to make a heartbreaking choice at a devastating moment, and they chose to give life to my daughter and probably several other gravely ill infants. Check your organ don…
I am happy for your family. I am an organ donor. I am also planning to donate my body to a medical institution so that the medical students have a human body to dissect and learn from. I hear that there is a dearth of human bodies. Since the topic of organ donation came up, I thought of asking this question. This is a real incident. I am not making this up. I met a learned priest. Both I and the priest are hindus. He…
As a Hindu myself - my 2c on the topic...
Hinduism has no central doctrine, so while this particular priest may hold a view on organ donation (or lack thereof), there will be others who may encourage it. As an example - Lord Ganesha's head is "donated" from an elephant. The concept of organ reuse isn't new. There just wasn't the technology to deal with it in the past.
I may not be as learned as the priest you know. But I have yet to find any of the priests I know tell me organ donation goes against any scripture.
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#146For everything ~ The events had that happened to me, the people that I had in life, is like a bunch of neural network that made me what I am now. It doesn’t have to be always positive, a negative weight is also the reason my life points to what it is now.
Not to say my life is perfect, but with the flaws I had, people still cared about me.
Thank you my family, friends, enemies - everyone. One can’t be grateful to God until one be thankful for the kindness of others.
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#147I am grateful for the opportunity I have to be grateful (I am alive!). Every morning, as part of my hygiene, I figure out something I am grateful for. It could be something from day before or anything, I just don't want to repeat and there for be creative! But it help raise awareness not to live life for granted.
I used to do that every night. It's easy to look back and see that even in a shitty day there are things you should be happy for.
Somehow, I stopped. Doing it in the morning seems a good idea to start again.
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#148I'm honestly trying to think of cool stuff that happened to me this year, and while there is some, the crappy stuff outweighs all that.
I'm probably thankful for some self-discovery I did this year. Turns out I'm not really socially awkward after all.
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#149I’m thankful for all the fateful situations that have led to my humility and happiness.
Without them, I might have thought I was someone else. I might have never truly defined myself.
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#150That the world is getting so much better for so many people. Here's a Twitter thread from 2017 going over just a few of ways the world has gotten better: https://twitter.com/DinaPomeranz/status/933409395278573569?s...
I can suggest you reading "factfulnes", by the late Hans Rosling.
It's a good book on how to approach the world, and much like his talks, it really pushes the idea that our world, though flawed, is often much better than we think it is.