What are you thankful for?

[Mythrandir]

In the United States, tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving is a feast holiday celebrating and remembering that which we are thankful for. Around this time of year, my church small group practices the tradition of sharing three things that we are thankful for. It has something to do with a story of pilgrims rationing their food to only three kernels of corn per day per person. I'd like to share this tradition with the folks on this forum.

I suppose, being the OP, I should start:

• First and foremost, I am thankful for and to God the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. He, knowing my sinful state of rebellion, provided Jesus Christ, the Son, as propitiation for all of my unrighteousness.
• I am thankful for and to my family, friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. They have provided support, comradery, advice, and even loving rebuke during both the dark valley lows and the bright mountain highs.
• I am thankful for and to my current employer. They were willing to provide employment when no one else would during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, granting me wages to provide for myself as well as others.

What three things are you thankful for?

 

[AncientBoi]

I'm Thankful for the friends I have made on GBAtemp. [ my tempy family]

I'm thankful to still be able to do the gaming scene.


I am also very very thankful for the makers of viagra

 

[x65943]

I am thankful for:

Being born in the US
Getting to live in the 21st century
Having the luck to attend a good school that prepared me for college
Having generally good health
A supportive family
And with all those things
The ability to eat when I want to
The ability to vacation
The ability to heat my home
The ability to listen to music whenever I want
The ability to have whatever beliefs or thoughts I want without fear of persecution

It's amazing how lucky I have been, and honestly I don't deserve all of this. Our whole lives in the west are based on exploitation of people in 3rd world nations

Think of all the exploitation, coups, warmongering for oil and continued violence at border sites that has made our lives possible

I suppose I am thankful for what I have, but also understand everything I have is immoral to possess and I am committing some sort of sin against humanity by enjoying my ill gotten gains

Ah well I suppose that's humanity. Bread and circuses. Perhaps one day socialism will actually work and end all of this, but I think human suffering will go on and on til we nuke ourselves into oblivion and end the pain

 

[CoolMe]

I'm Thankful for the friends I have made on GBAtemp. [ my family]

You actually have friends here?
Didn't see that coming..

I'm thankful to still be able to do the gaming scene.

Now, what did you do to the gaming scene?

 

[Maximumbeans]

I'm kind of envious that we don't have Thanksgiving here. I know it's controversial these days for various reasons but it's always looked like a nice family holiday in the run up to Christmas, at least from the outside.

I am thankful for:

Being born in the US
Getting to live in the 21st century
Having the luck to attend a good school that prepared me for college
Having generally good health
A supportive family
And with all those things
The ability to eat when I want to
The ability to vacation
The ability to heat my home
The ability to listen to music whenever I want
The ability to have whatever beliefs or thoughts I want without fear of persecution

Based. I always try to remind myself of similar luxuries when things feel hard. My house might have things that fall apart and stress me to no end, but at least I have a house to stress over in the first place.

 

[CoolMe]

Well as for what i'm thankful for, this year specifically, i think now i have a clear vision of what i want to do/achieve in the future and i'm thankful for that & those who helped me realize that..
I'm also thankful for the free time that i have (currently), 'cause i know there'll be a time when i won't have nearly as much time as i do now..
Thankful for my good physical & mental health..
Also thankful for my family. And the GBATemp family of course!

 

[Hayato213]

Thankful to live another year, and no more poll from Polly .

 

[DinohScene]

I'm thankful for the fact I'm not religious.

 

[AncientBoi]

Thankful for Not being Homeless anymore


Thank you @Hayato213

 

[bodefuceta]

Having a supportive family
Being in great health
Being able to run a profitable business
Having the ability and determination to solve so many problems
Having honest people willing to work for/with me
Being around people who understand the value and beauty of capitalism
Having mostly functional water, electricity, internet, transport infrastructure
The magnificent past and present society who built so many amazing things
God, or Nature's God, or both.

 

[SylverReZ]

I'm thankful for many things such as:
- Having very supportive and respectable friends and family around me.
- Being here on GBAtemp with you all.
- Improving on my mental and physical health.
- Getting a good education.
- Hoping for a better year.

 

[SweetTooth71]

I'm thankful for Elon Musk buying twitter.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Thankful for:
Living in a time, where society and technology have removed a lot of the dangers of life.
Having seen the great achievements of humanity really is an honor.
What we can do nowadays (microelectronics, internet, medicine for example) would look like almost godly powers to people from earlier centuries
…

And of course for being allowed to use this forum.
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I want to add: Where light is, there is also shadow.
Much of our technology gets (ab)used more for nonsense (I spare you the essay!)

and…

Spoiler: we humans are also able to do something really stupid with our big knowledge

 

[EldritchPenumbra]

My parents are gone now, I wish they were here, so I am thankful that I had been adopted by two people who I love and miss enough that I wish they were here today. When they were alive, I could have gave a rats ass about Thanksgiving, but now it makes me think of them, because they always tried to get the family together on the holidays.

 

[SylverReZ]

My parents are gone now, I wish they were here, so I am thankful that I had been adopted by two people who I love and miss enough that I wish they were here today. When they were alive, I could have gave a rats ass about Thanksgiving, but now it makes me think of them, because they always tried to get the family together on the holidays.

I'm sorry to hear that, dealing with loss is tough in itself. I really don't have feelings for that, it's just a part of me.

 

[The Catboy]

I am thankful for choosing to keep living. Had I not done so, I wouldn’t be here to be planning a trip to see my family more often. Ever since moving across the country I’ve not been able to see my family, this year will be the first Christmas in 11 that I will be spending with my family. I am glad I put the bottle down and stop taking painkillers. And I am glad my previous attempts on my own life had failed. I am able to do something that I never once thought was possible.

 

[SylverReZ]

I am thankful for choosing to keep living. Had I not done so, I wouldn’t be here to be planning a trip to see my family more often. Ever since moving across the country I’ve not been able to see my family, this year will be the first Christmas in 11 that I will be spending with my family. I am glad I put the bottle down and stop taking painkillers. And I am glad my previous attempts on my own life had failed. I am able to do something that I never once thought was possible.

I'm glad that you're going to see your family for the first time in years.

 

[JuanMena]

I'm thankful because I'm able to witness Natural Selection in action: