I thank you for leaving me after three years. I thank for not even bothering to come back. Thank you for taking all the stuff you had at home because I wouldn’t want to see you anymore. It has been four months since you left. I didn’t realize breathing could be so much easier once you were gone. Thank you Ed for stepping out of my life cause you're not worth it. Now you’ve given me the chance to find and feel the real love we thought we had.
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( 2.8 / 86 )I am thankful for the reality of knowing and realizing things. to share a few: tomorrow we may all die so make today good.
if you are reading this, congrats, you’re alive, if you don’t see that to be enough of a reason to smile, then i don’t know about you.
life is beautiful. find something great and never lose it.
if something means so much to you that it hurts to lose it, then don’t lose it. if someone dies, cherish them... you will be with them eventually. if you lose something, remember it, let it be a reminder to appreciate things when you have them.
if someone means something to you, let them know. everybody needs to be reminded of how great they are.
and above all, be happy.
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( 3 / 49 )I am grateful to my friend, David, for all the ways in which he's saved my life. Now that he needs my help, I hope I can help him, keep him walking, fighting, believing, just as he's done for me.
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( 3 / 62 )My mother's an alcoholic. She's a functional one. We can't get her to stop drinking. Sometimes she takes breaks from it. And she only drinks wine. It takes acceptance. It takes love. She is worth all our love. She's magical, really, with or without the drinking. I'm trying to feel all my gratitude toward her today. See all that she is -- all her creativity, her beauty, all her care and vitality. I have to or else it's too much, the thought of all we'll lose if she can't or won't take better care of herself.
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( 2.9 / 54 )These cupcakes a friend made me are better than sex or today they are and I'm grateful as hell, especially since I'm single. Sometimes it's the little things, you know? Yellow cake, chocolate frosting...
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( 2.9 / 56 )Was just dancing on a rooftop overlooking the skyline of Denver. Watching fireworks near Coors Field. Amazing!
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( 3 / 114 )Thank you, Michael. You lead an army of love that will go on. We may say goodbye to you, but what you gave us will never die! God bless you.
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( 3 / 96 )Thanks to Sarah Palin for reminding us how often people in public life, and journalists for that matter, should just say, I have no idea what's going on. She has the chops to parade her ignorance in front of everyone without apology. (Maybe in advance of a federal corruption indictment, too, but that's another issue.) I just hope all those wiseacre pundits on the Sunday talkshows will display the same courage she has.
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( 3.1 / 92 )Thank you for being the ONE person in this world that sticks by me no matter how many times I fail you. I really don't try to mess up on purpose... I am finding that I'm an incredibly weak individual. Thank you for believing in me, my heart,...thank you for not leaving when what I did to you was unforgivable. Thank you for reminding me time and time again, that I'm not a mistake, that I am beautiful and have a purpose in this world...
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( 3 / 121 )Thanks for the wack-a-doo-ness of your company. The blue-blue world is bright and bouncy now. It's like a pop song when pop songs were worth something. You there - you in the glasses - I want you.
Submitted by: Lou
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( 3.1 / 92 )I'm thankful for all the heartbreak and setbacks. It made me grow up. I would not have known how to be a good friend and husband to you otherwise. I may not be pretty anymore, but I am solid and I'll be true.
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( 3 / 90 )Thanks to my cancer. It helped me wake up to life. It's been hard but then getting a new pair of eyes is never simple.
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( 3 / 112 )The Spring. It's made the world seem big and magical again. I am grateful.
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( 2.9 / 88 )Like so many others, I have lost my job. I cried for days and days, felt so bad. I have a family to help support, a child in college, but only recently did it dawn on me that this might be the best thing that ever happened to me. It gives me the chance and the time to figure out what I should be doing, what might excite me, and to slow down, to reset. That's not to say I'm not still afraid, but now some of that fear gets to be excitement too. At my age, to become someone else? At moments, I feel young again, and I'm grateful.
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( 3 / 115 )thank you...
for being quiet
and beautiful
and almost, almost, almost
mine.
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( 3 / 129 )Hi, G. Watching the new Gatorade ads -- What's G? -- made me think of you and all you've meant to me. You really have been the heart, hustle and soul of my days. Thank you.
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( 2.9 / 118 )I was in love with a married man. I tried not to fall. We worked together. We became friends and then things grew in intensity and feeling. He was 10 years my senior. He was kind and funny and saw things in me that I did not. He loved his wife but was no longer physical with her. They were exhausted from raising kids, from making ends meet. They were bored. He felt renewed in my company, as I did in his. We read to one another. We learned so much from those novels. We laughed. We really loved. I even loved his wife, his kids. But he wasn't leaving his family and he couldn't make me part of it. It ended. Painfully. So painfully. As I always knew it would. But I am grateful for every moment, every touch, every book read. How at home we were. He really saw me, knew me. We didn't make one another up. I won't let myself love another married man again, and I'm grateful for that, too.
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( 3.3 / 134 )I want to thank my dog. She's great. A zen master, I realize, with her simple ability to focus, unerringly, in the moment. On a toy, a game of fetch, her food, and even me. Occasionally, I could swear she's even meditating. Focus and simplicity. I'm grateful for the example and for how much love she inspires in me.
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( 2.9 / 115 )I must thank all the powers behind it, for 50 years, healthy, happy, kicking, clawing, creating.
Submitted by: Superman
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( 3 / 105 )I never thought I'd get over her. I never thought I'd be happy again. I loved her for nine years. She was never satisfied with me. I moved out. I made changes. It all felt like a forced march. It was the worse kind of loneliness. But I am happy now. It took time. I feel free. I guess I'm writing today to show some gratitude to time, to the process, how simple it can be, taking it day by day.
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( 2.9 / 144 )I don't advocate cheating on your husband or wife. I don't mean to suggest to anybody to do what I did, to sin, but I did -- I slept with a man who is not my husband. My husband, who is older than me, lost interest in sex years ago. He encouraged me to go outside our marriage, but I was raised Catholic and wouldn't dream of it. I love him, honor him. Then I met this guy at a friend's party. There was this instant thing -- playful, sweet, and really sensual. After a few months of saying no, trying to be a friend to this new man, I did sleep with him. Ever since, I have felt reborn, alive, desirable, freer in my body and mind. I am so grateful and especially grateful for the understanding that sinning is sometimes about freedom. Sometimes it is about loving yourself.
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( 3.2 / 139 )I thank the stars or the power behind them that makes good things happen to those trying to be good people. I find myself with a mate of the highest quality. A gem, rare, perfect. She's all style, brains, fun, determined, and maybe best of all, she's got an angel's face and an assassin's ass. I wake with a smile.
Submitted by: Jimmy the Saint
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( 3 / 130 )i am grateful that life gave me the oppurtunity to revisit my mistakes till i got the lesson no matter how bad it was. i used to blame karma fate destiny murphys law, never felt life was fair or even close, like i always was paying for my past mistakes, i blamed everyone for everything, kept wondering why i was always in a mess till i grabbed on to the thought i am in control of my life, my thought and focus bring what i put in and get from the universe
Submitted by: Viki Larson
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( 3 / 140 )Thank you for loving me; thank you for understanding. Thank you for letting me vent, letting me complain, for being a slouch, for being moody. Thank you for putting up with me being so worrisome. You have no honest idea how hard I fight myself to keep from crying out of sheer joy when we spend time together. Thank you for letting me in when I know that it’s rare when you do. Thanks for telling me my questions are stupid, kissing me and answering them. Thanks for saying "OW!" when I punch you during your workouts when I know I couldn't bruise a peach. Thank you for giving me credit when I am owed it and denying it to make me prove myself. Thank you for 2 and a half years of being in love and being my best friend. Without you, Aaron, I'm pretty sure I'd still be me, but not the me I'm meant to be. Thanks for fumbling the words "I love you" two weeks into our knowing each other and saying you respected me first. Then owning up to it 20 seconds later.
...and thank you for bringing up marriage before me. It makes me feel better since I thought of it first.
Submitted by: Carly
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( 2.9 / 122 )I had liver disease. I would have died, but my brother gave me half of his so that mine would regenerate. It did. His did. And now we fight all the time over nothing. I bought him a car. I re-roofed his house. I tell him how grateful I am. I'm telling you too so maybe he'll stop looking at me like I killed him.
Submitted by: Phil
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