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So ...
Thankfulness.
Thankfulness.
*While I'm whining about how I'm unable to lose weight, I try to remember to be thankful I have a surfeit of edible food.
*While I'm whining about how Verizon is the internet service from hell, lousy, slow, incompetent, overpriced ... I try to remember to be thankful I've got it, along with all the other gadgets and luxuries so many of us take for granted and too often consider either our right, or a necessity. They're neither. Really.
*While I'm whining that I still don't seem to be able to afford to buy a home, I'm thankful I can afford to live comfortably - far more comfortably than so very very many in this world who labor a lot harder than I have to (or who would, if they were just given the chance).
*While I'm whining about the absurdity that is my job, I'm VERY thankful that I have one, and that it seems to be as secure as possible in this economic environment, and that it pays OK, and that, really, it's not a bad job at all. Not at all. Compared to what some people have to do to get by in this world, I'm very lucky. Compared with my friends in the news business, who've just seen another round of layoffs (people I know and like, hard-working people who don't deserve this, not at the holidays, not at any time), I'm incredibly lucky, and I'm thankful.
*While I'm whining about the fact that the world seems full of inconsiderate, loud, selfish, ignorant slobs whose immediate and most base gratifications seem always to come at the cost of annoyance, inconvenience, or downright danger to those around them ... I'm thankful I'm not related to any of them, because at least I can get away from them.
*I'm thankful that I actually do have a job I like, though it's not perfect and will never make me rich, and that the people I work with are for the most part good people. The biggest day-to-day problem in any workplace, overwhelmingly, is not the work or the pay or the drive or the uniform. It's the other people. I've been very lucky in that regard.
*I'm thankful I have my health, despite my own inability to treat it as well as it deserves to be treated. Those of you who're 25 or under can ignore this. For the rest of us, remember to try to try to eat right and exercise more. I'm trying to and I know a lot of you are trying to also. Keep trying. On second thought, all of you, whatever your age, have fun, but take care of yourselves. There are people who love you and would be devastated to lose you.
*I'm thankful for friends and family, whom I love, and who seem to love me back for some reason and to do things for me that as far as I can tell I've done nothing to deserve.
*I'm thankful that, despite the passage of Prop. 8 and other indicators that we still have a lot of horrible people in this country, we also have a lot of good people who're voting and otherwise speaking up, and that, at least so far, none of the people I'm close to have fallen into the "horrible" category.
*I'm thankful to the many many people online with whom I've had wonderfully thought-provoking discussions, and to readers who have been nice enough to go to the trouble (and I know that it is trouble) to tell me something I wrote made their day/hour/whatever. That makes mine.
Let's just leave it at, for all my whining, I'm damn lucky and I am aware of it, and not just today. :-)
*While I'm whining about how Verizon is the internet service from hell, lousy, slow, incompetent, overpriced ... I try to remember to be thankful I've got it, along with all the other gadgets and luxuries so many of us take for granted and too often consider either our right, or a necessity. They're neither. Really.
*While I'm whining that I still don't seem to be able to afford to buy a home, I'm thankful I can afford to live comfortably - far more comfortably than so very very many in this world who labor a lot harder than I have to (or who would, if they were just given the chance).
*While I'm whining about the absurdity that is my job, I'm VERY thankful that I have one, and that it seems to be as secure as possible in this economic environment, and that it pays OK, and that, really, it's not a bad job at all. Not at all. Compared to what some people have to do to get by in this world, I'm very lucky. Compared with my friends in the news business, who've just seen another round of layoffs (people I know and like, hard-working people who don't deserve this, not at the holidays, not at any time), I'm incredibly lucky, and I'm thankful.
*While I'm whining about the fact that the world seems full of inconsiderate, loud, selfish, ignorant slobs whose immediate and most base gratifications seem always to come at the cost of annoyance, inconvenience, or downright danger to those around them ... I'm thankful I'm not related to any of them, because at least I can get away from them.
*I'm thankful that I actually do have a job I like, though it's not perfect and will never make me rich, and that the people I work with are for the most part good people. The biggest day-to-day problem in any workplace, overwhelmingly, is not the work or the pay or the drive or the uniform. It's the other people. I've been very lucky in that regard.
*I'm thankful I have my health, despite my own inability to treat it as well as it deserves to be treated. Those of you who're 25 or under can ignore this. For the rest of us, remember to try to try to eat right and exercise more. I'm trying to and I know a lot of you are trying to also. Keep trying. On second thought, all of you, whatever your age, have fun, but take care of yourselves. There are people who love you and would be devastated to lose you.
*I'm thankful for friends and family, whom I love, and who seem to love me back for some reason and to do things for me that as far as I can tell I've done nothing to deserve.
*I'm thankful that, despite the passage of Prop. 8 and other indicators that we still have a lot of horrible people in this country, we also have a lot of good people who're voting and otherwise speaking up, and that, at least so far, none of the people I'm close to have fallen into the "horrible" category.
*I'm thankful to the many many people online with whom I've had wonderfully thought-provoking discussions, and to readers who have been nice enough to go to the trouble (and I know that it is trouble) to tell me something I wrote made their day/hour/whatever. That makes mine.
Let's just leave it at, for all my whining, I'm damn lucky and I am aware of it, and not just today. :-)