I find myself thinking of things I'm thankful for. One, I realized how unthankful I've been for, say, most of my life. I complain and bitch too much. Complaining at all is too much. Hell, the Bible says that murmuring and complaining are pretty shitty behaviors. That never stuck when I was a kid, but I'm rededicating myself to the internalization of those principles.
So right now, I'm thankful for teachers. Not in the education-system-sense, I mean anyone who tries to teach anyone else something new. One of the best things I ever got from "self-help" was that, whenever you learn something new, teach it to someone else: I'm going to redouble my efforts at this. Meantime, I'm thankful for all the people in my life who have taught me various things. I didn't learn enough from some, and I learned far too much from others, but the knowledge was there.
I'm also thankful that I'm getting better, and I'm going to be better than I've ever been before. Just because I'm not uber right now, doesn't mean I'm always going to be this way.
I'm thankful for exercise. I've been working out a little for the past couple months, just about every day at work, but I've been getting built back up after my injury last year. Almost where I can really begin growing again. In one year, I'll be stronger than I ever was. W00t.
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