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A lot of things but the one I know I take for granted a lot is my health. Just having a cold puts me in jealousy of "me without a stuffed nose". And then I remember a colleague who got a torn ACL and is out of any kind of exercise for almost a year. And of course there are worse things than that.

Let's be thankful for good health for those that enjoy it.

 
Count WACCula

A lot of things but the one I know I take for granted a lot is my health. Just having a cold puts me in jealousy of "me without a stuffed nose". And then I remember a colleague who got a torn ACL and is out of any kind of exercise for almost a year. And of course there are worse things than that.

Let's be thankful for good health for those that enjoy it.

Absolutely, it's so easy to take good health for granted until something happens. Even a small thing like a cold reminds you how much better life feels when you're healthy. Wishing your colleague a smooth recovery that's a tough break.

 
equityeliminator

Being alive. Sometimes I'm baffled by life and its beauty. What a blessing it is to experience love and hate, success and failure, love and death. It's so easy to take life for granted, I'm just glad I get to experience it all

Well said. 

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same"

- Rudyard Kipling

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Everything man. I'm grateful for everything. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it is a good reminder that it takes a village and man I'm lucky to have mine. 

Grateful to be alive and healthy.

Grateful to be in the position I'm in personally and professionally and for the support of all the wonderful people who helped get me here.

Grateful to be surrounded by a loving family, good friends and generally the good people who tolerate me, support me and contribute to my life experience.

I could write 50 more points and it would not be enough. 

 
rabbit

Everything man. I'm grateful for everything. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it is a good reminder that it takes a village and man I'm lucky to have mine. 

Grateful to be alive and healthy.

Grateful to be in the position I'm in personally and professionally and for the support of all the wonderful people who helped get me here.

Grateful to be surrounded by a loving family, good friends and generally the good people who tolerate me, support me and contribute to my life experience.

I could write 50 more points and it would not be enough. 

Awesome!!!

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

It’s truly crazy how many things there are to be grateful for. I learned that some people have intestine problems and as a result, they have to attach a plastic bag to the side of their body that hooks up to their digestive tract and collects their poop. These people would do anything to just be able to shit out of their ass normally. 

If I just wrote “I’m grateful for being able to shit out of my ass”, my comment would probably be removed. But it’s literally true - shitting out of your ass is a blessing. 
 

I could think of hundreds of other mundane things like this that are a blessing. And even people who can’t poop out of their buttholes have so much to be grateful for - just a few hundred years ago they would likely be dead without modern medicine. So in a way, it’s also a blessing to be able to shit into a bag that’s connected to your stomach.

 

There are lots of things: major and minor ones that I appreciate.  One of the major ones is my family.  I am glad that my kids do well in school and do not smoke, drink or do drugs.  I appreciate that I am healthy at the moment because you never know what tomorrow brings.  It seems kind of minor but I appreciate my new lawn service guys because they are a big upgrade in every way over my previous one.  I also appreciate my cleaning service because they do the work that I do not want to do

 

I come from India. I'm part of the elite upper crust. I've had offers from old money aristocratic families for marriage even. Most of India is low peasantry. They even look different.

As privileged as I am I always wondered what life would be like if I was a lower caste peasant.

 

Lol.  I wouldn't want to think about it bro.  I don't think there's a worse existence than being an average smuck in the subcontinent, than perhaps possibly being a nigerian at the same level.

 

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