I'm thankful for a lot of things this year. The fact that nobody in my family has died this year as of this post, the support of my friends and family with the record label - releasing music - and everything else. I'm thankful to have such great friends that will always be there, as I'm quickly learning. This applies both to those made in high school and college.
I'm thankful to have a wonderful opportunity to be at the college I'm studying at and to have leadership opportunities there on top of being in the program that I'm in. Along those lines, I'm thankful for a potentially great internship starting in January. The last thing for now is how thankful I am for my girlfriend, and how much she has helped me get through some hard times this year, never judged me, and always supports me in the most selfless relationship I've been in. I will always be thankful for her.
What are you thankful for this year?
I'm grateful for science. I'm grateful for being alive now and for all the shoulders we stand on to have the human rights we have. I'm grateful to those who continue to work towards human rights and equal opportunity for all. We're not there yet. I'm grateful for the ability and freedom to question all dogma, including self-created and self-imposed dogma - how do I know what I know? What assumptions and mythologies do I subscribe to? I'm grateful, so grateful, for opportunities I have to give, work, think, write, engage, encounter, debate, share, support, love. I'm grateful for hubski, our little corner of the internet and the lovely team that keeps it going. I'm grateful for having other humans to love and to feel loved by them.
I often think that love and gratefulness are actually different words for the same thing. A little while back, I wrote this: "Saying "I love you" is our way of showing gratitude. What you mean is that in the presence of the romantic partner you feel smarter and more beautiful than with anyone else. You feel connected and alive and worthy. You are so grateful to the other person for co-creating the situation where those feelings emerge that you are overwhelmed with a gratefulness that you call love."
Whaaaaaat this is good. This makes a lot of sense to me."Saying "I love you" is our way of showing gratitude. What you mean is that in the presence of the romantic partner you feel smarter and more beautiful than with anyone else. You feel connected and alive and worthy. You are so grateful to the other person for co-creating the situation where those feelings emerge that you are overwhelmed with a gratefulness that you call love."
I'm thankful for the support my friends and family have given me this past year. I'm thankful for my organization entrusting lives to someone as unqualified as I am. I'm thankful for the respect, acceptance, and trust the homeless vets I manage have given me, even though I'm just a kid to them. I'm thankful that I can be excited for 2014.