Thanksgiving

So it's almost Thanksgiving. I know it's a bit corny and unsophisticated, but here's a list of things I am thankful for:

- I am thankful for my family: a group of people to come home to who think I am special and important, despite my foibles, weaknesses, failures and genuine (real) deficiencies as a person, parent, spouse.

- I am thankful for a spouse who cares for me and treats me with respect and loves me in so many ways.

- I am thankful for beautiful children who look at me with adoration and for who I am everything.

- I am thankful for a job that allows me to provide for my kids.

- I am thankful for living in a wonderful place that I have come to love.

- I am thankful for friends who genuinely love me, and value me as a wonderful person. People who look at me and see me as a glorious individual instead of seeing the above-mentioned foibles and weaknesses.

- I am thankful for my parents and siblings who value me as an individual and remind me of where I come from and that I am not alone in the Universe.

- I am thankful for having had a chance to have lived in many places and experienced many different things and people.

- I am thankful to the Universe, or Fate, or God, for giving me the privilege of being human, being self-aware and being able to enjoy the indescribable pleasure, pain, joy, sadness, companionship and loneliness of being human.

- I am thankful to have had so many hard experiences and always have had people around me help me get through to the other side.

Thanks.