What are you grateful / thankful for?

During Thanksgiving day I like to make a list of all the things I am grateful for. When I finished the list this Thanksgiving I had six pages worth. It makes me realize the little things I take for granted. Like toilet paper, soap and good friends. Not necessarily in that order.
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I'm very thankful that I still have my vision and that my atrial fibrillation was finally cured in 2016. I'm thankful for my loving family (including honorary children) and friends, especially my son and BFF. Like @chic, I have quite the sense of humor so laughter surrounds me. I'm also thankful for decisions I made when I was in my 20s and 30s that had such a positive impact on my financial situation over the years and during retirement. I sometimes still thank my (late) mother for convincing me to move into this apartment complex.
 
Every thanksgiving we think up a different ‘thankful question’. For 2021, it was ‘ what is something you hope to be thankful for this time next year?’ We wrote down the answers and reviewed them this year. Was interesting to see how things turned out .

This years question was ‘ what is something you are thankful for on behalf of someone else?’ I was thankful a particular family member was finally able to get some health insurance.

Another year was ‘what is some insignificant, often taken for granted thing, you are thankful for?’ Lot of fun answers that year.

The year it was ‘ what is something you are thankful for from your childhood’? we almost all had the same answer — that we grew up where and how we did.

We’re running out of ideas for questions. Will have to think all year to prepare for 2023!
 
Alligatorob said:
Today, that I don't have to go shopping on Black Friday!!
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be very thankful for that indeed.. I completely forgot it was Black Friday, and got completely caught up in it in town today :eek: If it had been closer to home I would have turned around and come home again as soon as I couldn't find a space to park, but it was in the next county, and fuel is so expensive that I wasn't about to make a second trip on another day
 
Been There said:
I'm grateful for my niece. She surprised me with a visit for the holiday arriving on Tuesday night until Saturday morning. I never expected her, but remembering back, she did ask me if I was doing anything special for Thanksgiving or staying home. Now I know why she wanted to know if I was going to be home. She went to the store yesterday and bought all the fixings for our meal today. She is the daughter I never had.
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She leaves in the morning to fly home to San Jose. I am going to miss her so much that it’s going to hurt to say good-bye. We did promise to get together next summer somewhere.
 
I am grateful for the delicious Belgian Dark chocolate & Ginger Biscuits I'm eating right now.. :p

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In this era, we people that live in modern Western societies tend to gauge our personal conditions in terms relative to other people of today. Especially regarding personal possessions. If we were to instead evaluate our lives versus those most wealthy or nobles living several hundred years ago, we would rate ourselves highly and rather the nobles would greatly envy what we ungrateful take for granted as being rather ordinary. I am extremely grateful despite a long list of stressful world and societal issues, that I am living in this modern world now at the nascent knee of our science, technology, telecom era.

I have the opportunity to do absolutely amazing things no other humans before me could. I rest on the shoulders of the accumulated knowledge and efforts of millions of others, long gone into eternity before me. Even something as common as driving down to your nearby MacDonalds and eating a Big Mac with fries and a milk shake would have ancient kings drooling with envy. They would pay a kings ransom to visit places I merely drive to locally every year. Or hike to in alpine mountains and magnificent ocean shores. Next week will be getting my first days in during the new snow ski season allowing enormous fun. Even sitting at home, you have a fridge full refrigerated food our ancestors took hours to prepare and had to eat right then lest it quickly rot. Tomorrow Sunday go watch an NFL football game from your couch. Or some blockbuster movie on your 4k tv. So much more.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
 
Once again, I got to enjoy the 10 who graced our Thanksgiving table.
Most are single young friends of our son, who might have spent the day alone, but choose to join us.

My Dad, who was in the military for 34 years, always invited some single sailors for the holiday meals.
As a kid, I always enjoyed hearing about where they were from and about their families back home.

We carry on the tradition that no one should spend the holidays alone, if we can help it.
 

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