What I Am Grateful For Today

[elGeniuoso1721]

I just moved and am unemployed at the moment. I've applied to at least 20 places over the past 3 days. I'm a little impatient...but today I am very grateful to have a new home and the opportunity to apply for jobs. Because I've seen lots of homeless people who don't even have that opportunity, so I need to appreciate what I have. And then one day I can buy a meal for a homeless person.

 

[Apollo]

That I have a steady job and make a decent check.

 

[Butter My Biscuits]

I'm grateful that I had a good day today and nobody ruined it...for once.

 

[palbert]

Grateful that Facebook is falling and may meet my buy order.

 

[blackbeltninja]

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Slightly cryptic for those not in the know, but I'm grateful to finally change my custom title.




-D-

 

[mydrew1]

I'm grateful for discovering Tanner Patrick, the Texas singer.

 

[mikey3000]

Grateful I didn't fall asleep yet, my dryer caused a small fire, that if I were asleep it would have been too late to stop

Holy cow! What happened? A house fire is the worst, just recovering from one. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[just_mills]

Logging back onto the forum in what may have been 15 months, and getting into contact with a JUBber that I haven't spoke with since December/January (off of JUB).

My father and mother coming down to visit, and taking me out for dinner on my day off of work -- When the fella is on his two week stints at work, I enjoy having company and not being alone in the house, when I have no other plans..

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

is not a fish in da ikys rivers ofs lands stills ikys

there go

$ how fish has a barbi? $
invite electric eels
dat cleva fish

thankyou

 

[Blk_Thickness]

For having a job at OSU

The possibility that my tution will be all paid for this coming Fall Semester.

 

[refujiunderground]

i'm grateful for being alive.

i'm grateful i'm alive to post on here say whatever i want whether people in here like it or not.

i'm grateful to just be able to do this right now.

i'm grateful for having a mind that works, being able to feel emotions such as this morning when my mom pissed me off by arguing with me about why i'm not looking for a job and how i need to hurry up and get up out of here.

i'm grateful to have a good mother that gives a fuck about me because nobody outthere besides my mother does.

i'm grateful to have a father around being that a lot of people fathers aren't around even if he's not the best father. he's still my father.

i'm grateful to have a brother even though him and me have our ins and outs

i'm grateful for everything in my life, all the people, things, and experiences i had. good or bad.

i'm grateful to be able to have a mind where i can make my own decisions and be held accountable for them (responsibility) even if i don't take advantage of it like i should/

i'm grateful to live in a nice area, live in a house, having a roof over my head because i remember living in an apartment as a kid and how fucking annoying it was. i'm also happy my place doesn't have roaches and rats.

i'm grateful to live in the greatest country on earth even if this country doesn't like me back because i'm black.

i'm grateful for being a gay black male born under the circumstances that i came out of because i don't think i would be the person i am today if i was different

i'm grateful for the personality that i have and who i am in general. i'm not perfect. there's things about me that i don't like and i do like. never said i was or that i'm not wrong but i've learned that a part of surviving is just accepting and living with the things about myself that i can't change, working on the things that i can change and having the courage to make the best out of it. (no serenity prayer)

i'm grateful that i'm able to pay attention to others just as others pay attention to me positively and negatively. there are some people that walk the earth feeling that nobody gives a fuck about them or just feeling ignored and they are ignored. i'm talking about the homeless, the neglected and etc and even if it's negative energy that is given of, it's good to know that somebody outthere notices and gives a fuck. it can get lonely sometimes not getting attention. (yeah, i admitted it)

i'm grateful for being gay. i think life would suck if i was straight to be honest with you. at least there's support groups outthere for being gay unlike being straight. i see a lot of straight guys that are lost trying to figure out themselves or is it a people flaw

i'm grateful for being able to make it to college and graduate. i'm also grateful for never failing a class in my life even if i got by with a d- in high school. i did it.

i'm grateful for all the things that i didn't say. i'm saying too much.

i'm grateful for being on this web forum. i've been to many web forums and to be trill with you, this is a place where it's good to care and actually have empathy and emotions. a lot of web forums are insensitive to the point where there's no bounds of what people will say and do to you just to get attention. people here will straight up tell you that you're fucked up if you do something that's fucked up. that's something unheard of out of the 12 years that i've been on internet forums. i like this web community. i'm also thankful for the cool ass mods and administrators that are fair because i've been to plenty of web forums where the mods and administrators were complete douchebags that banned people for no reason or did so because certain people were their friends or whatever. you guys don't get enough credit. proof that no matter how good you are that you can't win with everybody. a couple of the threads that i've done in which i unintentionally offended people in here were simply because i'm used to the insensitive nature on web forums where you can say whatever you want and are not allowed to show any form of compassion, empathy or sensitivity as long as you don't diss the moderators or the web staff so i apologize. that's just what i'm used to.

 

[refujiunderground]

^ I guess it is the end of the world. (just kidding refugi )

I'm grateful that refugiunderground found so many wonderful reasons to be grateful, it was one of my hopes for this thread, I'm so proud of him.

thanks for your post comment, dude.

 

[subsonic]

I am grateful for being alive and having the support I need in these hard times..
And I'm grateful for seeing an end to this examination hell.

 

[vacancy3]

the inventor of beer and all the service men and women who are putting their lives on the line so that i can enjoy the actual product of freedom and beer while the world struggles to fight wars in which none of us will ever be the victor

 

[Mr-Brooding]

Waking up in good spirits rather than feeling sad.

 

[Joshua_me]

Today I'm thankful for deer.

This morning I had to take my mom to visit a hospice where she will soon enter and not come home. The doctor has given her only a few months left. Needless to say we've been quite sad at my house, but none the less I'm trying to go around and make final arrangements for her care. The hospice seems the best way to go for all of our sake. At first she aggreed to it no problem, but lately I think she has been having doubts; she is scared to die. Talking with her pallative care doctor this morning, he said that the time is comming quickly that she will need around the clock care, which is more than I can provide, and decisions must be made. So in trying to reassure her of her earlier decision, we hopped into the car to visit the hospice again.

It is an extremely beautiful place with wonderful people who truly care. As we walked and examined every nook and cranny of the place, she seemed to be forcing a smile and nodding her head at everything that was said to her. Then she asked to see the gardens outside. We walked in silence as she touched everything that was in her reach. We came to a bench that looked over a lush, green ravine, and we took a seat. She talked about how the place will do her just fine, just like most other places would too at this stage in the game. I knew what she really meant. I was putting her out to pasture. And I guess I kinda am but I don't have a choice. So I just sat there and said nothing. Just then a doe moved from behind a bush not 20 feet from us and came into full view. It took me a second to focus on it but once I did I pointed it out to my Ma in a very quiet voice. She couldn't see it at first cause it blended right in to the setting, but when she finally saw it she grew so excited. Us being city dwellers, the only deer we've ever saw were the ones on our local zoo, but this one was entirely different. Huge and graceful. It turned it's head and looked right at us. Ma was mezmerized. And so was the deer. Then a second and a third deer appeared. It was a whole fam damily! Ma was so excited, like a little kid on hallowe'en.

"When I come to stay here, do you think they'll let me feed them bread?" I said that I'm pretty sure they won't mind. Then I remembered how she used to take me to feed the deer in High Park when I was small and needy. Is this what they measn by the circle of life? I don't know too much anymore, but I do know that those deer made my Ma so happy. I hope they show again when she is there in her last days and make her smile, because I don't know if I'll be able to.

So today I am thankful for deer.

^ This is such a beautiful post.

It's not often that JUB brings actual tears to my eyes, but this one did just that.

Mikey, should you be reading this, please keep us updated on how your Mom is doing. She sounds like a very caring and beautiful person... The both of you will be in my prayers.

 

[Taz]

I'm grateful I get to talk to Jay before he catches some sleep

 

[diamondstar]

Being alive and healthy. My family and love ones being alive and well. Now what am not grateful for is this hot ass summer.

 

[mikey3000]

^ This is such a beautiful post.

It's not often that JustUsBoys brings actual tears to my eyes, but this one did just that.

Mikey, should you be reading this, please keep us updated on how your Mom is doing. She sounds like a very caring and beautiful person... The both of you will be in my prayers.

Thanks very much. I'm very conflicted over my Ma's demise as I guess most would me. I don't like to see her struggle so some days I hope the end comes quick. But also my wife is battling cancer too and the dynamics of two women in the same house fighting two different kinds of cancer is overwhelming for everyone involved. Sometimes I can't even find the strength to get out of bed and just let the tears flow. But every day I try hard to find something to be grateful for. Like today...

Today I am grateful for putting up a clothes line in my back yard that goes over a strawberry patch in the far back corner. Now when I hang my sheets out to dry, at the end of the day, and back on our bed, we smell fresh strawberries as we fall asleep.

And I'm grateful for McDonald's french fries!!!

 

[refujiunderground]

i'm grateful for having a mother that loves me and gives a fuck about me. I LOVE YOU, MOM. i'm sorry for giving you an attitude when you were telling me off about working and feeling tired like everybody else. i was just a little upset and kind of annoyed at you telling me that i'm not working hard enough. you want me to go out and get better so i can go out on my own and get out of your hair. don't blame you at all. after all i'm turning 26 in the next 2 months so hey... i don't blame you for saying that. once again, I LOVE YOU, MOM and even though you don't feel like you're appreciated, you are appreciated.