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Post by Warkitty on Nov 16, 2009 7:53:14 GMT -5
I've been doing an exercise on facebook, stating something I'm grateful for every day.
This morning when I got up and sifted around thinking of what I was grateful for. I thought of saying it was coffee, but realized that wasn't really something I was feeling grateful for, I was busy taking it for granted. I thought of saying it was my dog, but I felt too full of frustration from dealing with his acting out yesterday while I was gone, a continuing problem brought on by his earlier neglect (separation anxiety, but not specific to me... it's being alone that bugs him) and realized I really didn't at the moment feel grateful for him.
Each would have been valid, but I thought "no, let's take him for his morning walk and see if there's something else."
So, out we went, immediately to find one of the neighbors out walking his little wiener dog while sipping his morning coffee. We spoke, me first saying "my next dog will be small enough to walk while drinking coffee" and him saying "yours is beautiful though." We chatted off and on as we came across each other on our respective walks (it's an out and back street unless I care to cross Signal Mountain Blvd on a blind curve).
When I got in I realized I do have something better to be grateful for. Good neighbors. I've lived where neighbors never speak, and this is such a pleasant change from that.
It just goes to show, sometimes all you have to do to find things to be happy about is to step outside.
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Post by gridbug on Nov 16, 2009 7:58:34 GMT -5
So today you're grateful for the wiener next door?  |
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Post by ScarlettP on Nov 16, 2009 13:13:48 GMT -5
Sure beats having a neighor who calls the city on you so often that when your dog manages to wiggle the gate open and gets lost, you suspect the neighbor of letting the animals out just so they can call the pound. *sigh*
I'm grateful a nice person found my dog and kept him safe for me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 16:13:02 GMT -5
I am grateful for the Chattanooga Message Forum and the Booking Reports in the Police Blotter - because I found out that I was a criminal because I hadn't signed my vehicles' registrations.
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Post by Babs on Nov 16, 2009 17:24:28 GMT -5
Nice post, Warkitty! You're right...some things we take for granted. Good or bad neighbors can make all the difference in the world.
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Post by Tsavodiner on Nov 16, 2009 17:50:18 GMT -5
God's Truth. You don't appeciate the good ones 'til you've had BAD ones!
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Post by ohwell on Nov 16, 2009 18:50:10 GMT -5
Nice post. In my eyes, you are a better person. If I can't drive down my driveway and find something to thank God about, I'm turning around and going back home to pray.
Some times I pray about stupid things. I prayed one time that my daughter would find all of her Easter eggs. What I didn't know was the dog ate one. Then I prayed the dog would be OK.
But most important of all, you appreciate the good stuff and use the time to enjoy it.
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Post by gridbug on Nov 17, 2009 8:02:55 GMT -5
I'm thankful for Kitty and Scarlett and Babs and Yoda. I'm even thankful for Tsavo and that ohwell prays for dumb things  Oh yeah, and the wiener dog across the street. |
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Post by ScarlettP on Nov 17, 2009 10:31:30 GMT -5
We love you also, Grid. *smooches*
You make the world a better place to live in. You put up with me when I'm being crazy, so it's no strain on me to 'put up' with your bad days. I'm grateful to have you in my life for over 2 decades.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Nov 17, 2009 17:37:13 GMT -5
Any night that has been a good sleep is what I start the day being thankful for.
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Post by Jay on Nov 18, 2009 13:46:38 GMT -5
Every day above ground is better than the alternative, 'eh?  |
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Post by gridbug on Nov 18, 2009 13:55:22 GMT -5
I don't know, plenty people complain about being above ground yet nobody complains about the alternative.
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Post by Bob on Nov 18, 2009 16:13:20 GMT -5
A favorite saying..
"If you wake up breathing, congratulations, you get another chance"
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Post by JC on Nov 18, 2009 18:51:42 GMT -5
Don't think you can wake up not breathing,Bob
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Post by Tookie on Nov 18, 2009 21:34:37 GMT -5
Any night that has been a good sleep is what I start the day being thankful for. I agree 100% with that! |
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Post by mikeydokey on Nov 18, 2009 22:38:56 GMT -5
i'M GRATEFUL FOR GRATITUDE, FOR GRATITUDE IS TRULY A BLESSING. I'm also grateful for cap-locks and the Chattanooga Message Forum and the letters r, l, and c; but no so much for the letters v and x.
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Post by ohwell on Nov 20, 2009 19:43:31 GMT -5
I am grateful for people that I don't know, that still care about me. Do you have any idea of the feeling of being lost in a dark alley? Yeah, I do. But there have always been people there. Today at Erlanger, a young man held the door open to the elevator for me. I smiled and thanked him. The next people in, was a gentleman with his wife who was in a wheel chair. It was obvious that she had severe medical problems. I looked at the man, asked him to step forward so he could be the first off. I asked the other people to please step back. It turns out that one of the people I asked to step back was a doctor.
It doesn't stop here. The man that held the door open was a nurse practitioner that walked into my husband's. He smiled, and gave me a hug. Sometimes in life, race doesn't matter. If I ever that young man again, I will return the hug.
The doctor that I asked to step to the back, was from Cardiology. Yeah, he looked at me funny. Of course he looked at my husband and stated that he had a wonderful wife. My husband looked at me, "What did you do?"
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