Grateful

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Grateful that this far I have not gotten hit by a car. Plenty of close calls

Grateful that I still have a job, even though it is a dumpster fire "job"

Grateful my sister lets me live in her house for free because my job doesn't pay enough for rent

Grateful I am still in more or less good health, except the Litterbox, fatigue and weakness and back pain

Grateful to live somewhere relatively safe and not too crowded

Grateful that as of right now, all the appliances currently working

Grateful to live alone

Grateful to live somewhere quiet

Yeah I'm grateful for a lot of the stuff that people take for granted too

I am glad you have things to be grateful for.

Gratitude can definitely improve one's state of mental health. Continue to be thankful for all the small mercies. There's always someone worse off, and someone better off. Many of these "better off" folks have lost their humanity. They take everything for granted

Gratitude will get you much traction in your own personal life . And leave you much more satisfied in life, I feel
Having a higher perspective that might include Gratitude from above all your own individual life issues can have great mental benefits .

I'm grateful that I have a roof over my head.

I don't have anything to be grateful over.
The same reason as to there's nothing to forgive or apologize over.

Nor pretend that I should be grateful for something that doesn't par to my standards or expectations.

What I do instead was stop expecting out of anything.

Yet I'm currently content. That's mostly it. Without any sense of gratitude.
I'm also aware of my mercies big and small, my privileges and all that.

I don't know.
The concept of gratitude was largely ruined for me. It still is.


Also, it doesn't help that I came from a place where one had to be grateful at bare minimum. In some places, worse or less.

I came from a culture that romanticized resilience. It's inspiring and wholesome to some.

It is not pretty.

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I wish my stupid lil boss would put more emphasis on what I did correctly instead of my flaws

Even better that idiot should just leave me alone because I do a good job

Gratitude........is a feeling of appreciation (or similar positive response) by a recipient of another's kindness. This kindness can be gifts, help, favors, or another form of generosity to another person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratitude

So yes, I usually appreciate it when people kindly help me out.

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I'm not grateful for being alive to see the dawn of a new day, for having a roof over my head etc., like others here say they are. You've got a right to your own views of course, but for me there's nobody to be grateful to for those things, they don't come from kindness, so I don't see how I can be grateful for them. If I were religious I'd probably be saying that some greater power had kindly given them to me, but I'm not, so that's why I'm not grateful for them.

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I see there's been research that's shown a link between gratitude and happiness. Don't know much about that. Does trying to be more grateful make you happier? I don't know but I don't think so. I think it's just that depressed people don't notice so often when people are helping them out because they lock out the good thoughts and focus on the idea that everything's horrible. At least I suspect they do, I don't get clinically depressed as far a I know, but when I've been at my most miserable I've felt like that, I've started to brood and probably ignored people who tried to help me, or made up some cynical reason to imagine that they weren't really being kind at all. I also wonder if the research has confused gratitude with simply being glad when good things happen.

I think language is a bit of a problem here, because even secular people commonly say they're grateful for something that nobody gave them, but when you ask them who they're grateful to, they say nobody. So I think it's just a figure of speech like it is when we say "thank god it's Friday" even though we aren't religious. In other words, my post is pedantic and annoying. But if language was more logical I wouldn't need to be.

grateful that, thus far, i don't have to work two full time minimum wage jobs. having to deal w/angela w, angela d, angry customers, day laborers, and other BS.

grateful i am 42 years old. anything that happens to me (for example, getting hit by a car), will affect me from 42 til i drop dead. if i were to have gotten hit by a car @ age 9, then that would've affected me from 9 until i drop dead.

https://blueabatherapy.com/autism/autis ... xpectancy/
according to the article, the average lifespan for autistics: 39-58. (it is also correct, that many factors determine lifespan. it might not have been a representative sample. besides, quality versus quantity. not all diagnoses are correct. autism has a vague definition. but whatever).

hormonally transitioning from female to male could not possibly have prolonged my lifespan either.

on the other hand, i am not going to accomplish anything significant anyways. everyone is going to drop dead sooner or later.