Partial List Of Things To Be Grateful For

1. Our parents –for their endless love, care and sacrifice
2. Our partners
3. Our children
4. Our brothers and sisters
5. Our grandparents for their unconditional love and care
6. GOD/ The Universe
7. Biblical spiritual leaders
8. Former partners
9. Close intimate friends
10. Our extended family
11. Work colleagues
12. Our scary boss for showing us our weak spots
13. Significant adults in our early life – nannies, babysitters, kindergarten teachers, music/ dance/ drama teacher
14. Teachers, tutors, youth movement leaders, after school carers
15. Neighbors who literally breath the same air as we do
16. Childhood friends
17. Our first love
18. Anyone we took care of – for allowing us to explore ways to give
19. Anyone we have been teaching or tutoring – for allowing us an opportunity to teach, share and enhance our understanding on different matters.
20. Past employers for giving us a chance to develop and sharpen our skills
21. Difficult persons- for exposing our dark spots, pushing our boundaries and showing us where we still need to do the work
22. Bus drivers, cashiers, restaurant shefs, waitresses, postmen and women, street vendors and others who serve us on a daily basis
23. Musicians
24. People who serve us whether they are being paid of not. If it weren’t for their dedicated efforts of getting up in the morning and working all day long in a low paid hard physical work position we would be far less off
25. Children in general. For reminding us to return to innocence
26. Anyone who works at the movie industry for allowing us the opportunity to escape from our world from time to time and explore our boundaries
27. Spiritual teachers from all traditions
28. Individuals who dedicated their lives to spiritual practice for doing it for all of us who are unable to dedicate the necessary time and energy to the pursuit of goodness
29. Individuals who dedicated their life and being for the protection of human rights and for assisting others in danger
30. Politicians, that despite how we feel about politics, have enough courage and passion do for  improving the lives of millions all over the world. A job most of us will not dare to do
31. For great scientists whose wisdom and intellect improved our day to day life
32. Artists for the beauty they bestow on us
33. Doctors and nurses and medical staff for saving our lives and improving them
34. The men and women who did the back broken work of building our pavements and roads, the people who coloured the cross roads
35. Workers who built train lines
36. Builders who built the homes we live in
37. Engineers who dedicated their lives to inventing ships, trains, cars, airplanes etc and made our current lives possible
38. Poor peasants who work so hard at the rice fields and coffee plantations
39. Animals who assist peasants in their back breaking work
40. Teachers for their hard work bringing up and educating us
41. The men and women who developed furniture
42. Fashion designers for their creativity and assistance in our day to day life
43. Our bodies. If we are healthy we can be grateful for being healthy. For being independent. Able to make our own cup of tea, cook our food and go to the toilet by ourselves. If we are unhealthy, we can thank each and every healthy organ for it’s functioning . for the hard work each and every organ is carrying. If we are very sick and cannot really find organs to thank we can be grateful for the love and care we receive from our family, friends and medical staff.
44. Trees
45. Flowers
46. Sky
47. Birds
48. Immeasurable types of fragrances – natural and hand made
49. Moons
50. Sun rise
51. Sun shines
52. Rainbows
53. Clouds
54. The earth – which is the source of everything we ever ate or drank, every person we ever touched, every material possession we ever owned, every vehicle we ever drove. It is the source of food for all insects, bugs and animals, the trees, the flowers etc
55. The insects who shuffle the earth and assist the plants to grow our food
56. Butterflies for shining the world with their beauty
57. Bees for their crucial part in blossom of flowers and fruit trees
58. The oceans
59. The rivers
60. The deserts
61. Every car we ever drove
62. Every vehicle that ever taken us on a journey
63. Every person we ever hugged, or kisses or held hands with
64.  Every person who ever smiled at us
65. For running water
66. For having electricity at the tips of our fingers
67. For having walls to shelter us from the heat and cold weather
68. For having central heating
69. Every drink we ever drank
70. The mountains
71. The thousands shades of green
72. The beaches
73. Soft sand
74. Every time someone smiled at us
75. Evert time we had a sit at the tube during rush houe
76. Inspiring books
77. Inspiring songs
78. Comforting sweets
79. Puppies
80. Kittens
81. Babies