100 Things to Be Thankful For
Thanksgiving is a time for family, overeating and if we’re lucky,
giving thanks. Need some ideas? Here are 100 things to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving!
- For Saturdays that feel like Sundays and the moment we realize we still have another day in the weekend
- For fireplaces
- For cheerful people who remind us that happiness is a choice and make us want to choose it
- For the slanting late afternoon sunlight
- For the moment when a cheap bottle of wine starts to taste decent and someone proclaims “it’s growing on me!”
- For the warm, indescribable things we feel when we go on the first hike in a long time and realize that nature is just ...
- For the books that remind us how much we love reading
- For new beginnings forced upon us that we hate at first but learn were exactly what we needed
- For new beginnings we courageously choose for ourselves
- For the tears we never would have shed had we not been so lucky to have loved the thing we lost
- For the memory of how good we used to be at hailing taxis
- For never having to hail a taxi again
- For live music
- For first dates that go so well we talk until we run out of things to talk about, realize that we don’t know the person, and wish we had ended it on a high note but don’t really care because it went so well
- For friends who call us on our birthday
- For drinks in mason jars
- For children who don’t care what strangers think and remind us that we used to be tiny badasses who gave zero ****s what people thought about us
- For almond butter being healthy
- For the most basic things we take for granted, things like arms and legs, sight, and a single person who cares about us being alive or dead
- For meeting up with old friends and realizing that nothing has changed
- For a good laugh just when we needed it
- For the patter of rain that lulls us to sleep
- For paper books
- For freshly baked bread
- For board games
- For white wine on a Saturday afternoon
- For red wine in a warm room on a cold night
- For the things we may never fully understand like dreams, music and art
- For the people who laugh at our dumb jokes
- For the farmers who grow our food, the inventors who created their tools, the workers who package and deliver it and the clerks who sell it to us with a smile
- For being with loved ones in person and realizing that this is what life is all about
- For the courage to jump into the cold ocean, even if we immediately get out
- For the friends who push us to be less lazy and more adventurous
- For ice skating
- For visiting old places and remembering old moments
- For the moments we almost skip our workout, miraculously summon the will to do it anyway, and feel so good afterwards that we can’t imagine we ever considered bailing
- For anyone, anywhere who ever put their differences aside
- For the friends who never bail
- For the friends who forgive us for bailing
- For the people who sing or dance in their car like no one is watching
- For the moments in a rough patch when we realize that, against all odds, we feel a little bit better and are starting to get over it
- For being in a relationship and avoiding the petty superficiality of single life
- For being single and avoiding the boring delusion of relationship life
- For meditation and the path to self discovery and peace it will forever offer us
- For the unexpected challenges we despise while they bend us, and the wisdom they give us for not breaking
- For the friends who don’t give up on inviting us after seemingly endless rejections
- For the friends and family that don’t let us grow up too quickly
- For the stories our family tells about us as kids that we have zero recollection of but feel pretty cool about
- For the ridiculously stupid things that make us laugh and the people who say or do them
- For costume parties, and how lucky we are to live in a society peaceful and prosperous enough where costume parties are even remotely an option
- For long drives with good friends
- For the dreamers who never gave up
- For friends who stick up for us
- For design so good we never notice it
- For free delivery
- For the people who pull over on the side of the road just to admire a view
- For Uber and Lyft drivers so genuinely friendly they overrule our attempts to hide in our phones and end up getting us to tell them our life stories
- For avocado
- For the sunrises and sunsets we never cared to watch that will always be waiting for us next time
- For songs so good we put them on repeat until we hate them
- For campfires
- For the friends with tiny stomachs who give us their leftovers every time
- For the people who come to our parties by themselves despite not knowing anyone
- For the feeling of immense satisfaction after folding and putting away the last bit of laundry
- For coffee breaks
- For the people who saw more in us than we saw in ourselves
- For being a tiny speck on a tiny speck next to a tiny speck of light in a universe with more suns than grains of sand on Earth (it’s true)
- For hope
- For farmer’s markets
- For the moments when we treat ourselves
- For the moments when we resist
- For baristas who remember our names
- For people who remember meeting us even when we’ve forgotten, and aren’t afraid to tell us
- For the teachers who cared the most and will remember us long after we’ve forgotten them
- For the servers who put up with annoying groups that have included us at times
- For good vibes, and the people, places or stories that create them
- For the people who overrule our extended hand with a “nope — I’m coming in” hug
- For the people both living and dead who invented all the things we take for granted, from the sole of our shoe to the lines on our streets
- For the feeling of finally being home
- For the terrible dancers who give zero ****s and make everyone comfortable taking it up a notch
- For the strangers who smile and say hello on the sidewalk
- For living in an age where invisible knowledge travels through the air and shows up before us in thousands of tiny lights that simulate a written page
- For the people who taught us how to read
- For the workers in all the kitchens who made our food and we never have and probably never will thank
- For being alive during the next sixty seconds
- For airplanes that get us home safely to see family and friends
- For stretchy pants
- For shooting stars
- For the pizza, fist pound and grinning face emojis
- For pajamas, onesies and fuzzy socks
- For the beginning of every wedding season
- For the end of every wedding season
- For handwritten cards and the people who write them
- For holiday lights and their overpowering jollyness
- For the smell of fresh cut grass
- For scented candles
- For national parks and the people who fight for them, maintain them and welcome us to them
- For the freedom to sleep in, and all the good reasons not to
- For our “planner” friends without whom we would do the same things over and over
- For our parents, who deserve a list of their own
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