To all US readers: Happy Thanksgiving
November 25th 2011 00:00
Yesterday was Thanksgiving (Australian time) and a colleague from the US requested that we sit around and say what we are grateful for.
While this is not a usual Australian tradition, we thought it'd be a nice thing to do. What I've realised through the experience, is that sometimes we don't realise just how much we should be thankful for, and not to take things for granted.
Those new to the "game" may find it hard to think up a list, like I did. I sat there watching everyone else have a go and it wasn't until I heard a few of the responses did I know what I wanted to say. So here goes:
This year, I am thankful for:
1. My husband. He can be a bit of a pain from time to time, you know, boss me around a lot, but he is always there for me when I needed him. The best cook in the house I'll ever have and not to mention, the person who understand me the most, and still loves me after having to put up with me for so long. He is also the best travel partner I'll ever have! (there is an article coming up about this on Worldette
)
So thank you Will, and I love you.
2. My boss. Now this is a big call. This is someone whom I regularly argue with, who regularly forget to tell us there is a deadline and only notify us on the day something is due. Someone who is sometime just that little racist, that much up himself and arrogant. Yet, he is the one who stood up for me and kept me at my job when I didn't get the job I applied for that I was already doing (long story short: I was acting team lead, HR policy says you can't just give someone a job you have to advertise it even though someone is already doing the job. I applied, and didn't get it as I didn't answer the questions in the way HR wanted me to answer). He also fights for the team, and stands up for us when other team managers start to play the blame game.
So thank you boss.
4. Life. I am grateful for life. Every day we watch the news something bad was happening somewhere else and people were getting killed, injured and hurt, or simply just having to survive in a world with so much conflict and injustice. Hence, I am just grateful for life. For being alive, for having a job that pays the bills, keeps a roof over my head while still have enough money left to donate to charity and to travel. I have enough and I don't need any more.
There.
Why not try this exercise yourself?
While this is not a usual Australian tradition, we thought it'd be a nice thing to do. What I've realised through the experience, is that sometimes we don't realise just how much we should be thankful for, and not to take things for granted.
Those new to the "game" may find it hard to think up a list, like I did. I sat there watching everyone else have a go and it wasn't until I heard a few of the responses did I know what I wanted to say. So here goes:
This year, I am thankful for:
1. My husband. He can be a bit of a pain from time to time, you know, boss me around a lot, but he is always there for me when I needed him. The best cook in the house I'll ever have and not to mention, the person who understand me the most, and still loves me after having to put up with me for so long. He is also the best travel partner I'll ever have! (there is an article coming up about this on Worldette
)So thank you Will, and I love you.
2. My boss. Now this is a big call. This is someone whom I regularly argue with, who regularly forget to tell us there is a deadline and only notify us on the day something is due. Someone who is sometime just that little racist, that much up himself and arrogant. Yet, he is the one who stood up for me and kept me at my job when I didn't get the job I applied for that I was already doing (long story short: I was acting team lead, HR policy says you can't just give someone a job you have to advertise it even though someone is already doing the job. I applied, and didn't get it as I didn't answer the questions in the way HR wanted me to answer). He also fights for the team, and stands up for us when other team managers start to play the blame game.
So thank you boss.
4. Life. I am grateful for life. Every day we watch the news something bad was happening somewhere else and people were getting killed, injured and hurt, or simply just having to survive in a world with so much conflict and injustice. Hence, I am just grateful for life. For being alive, for having a job that pays the bills, keeps a roof over my head while still have enough money left to donate to charity and to travel. I have enough and I don't need any more.
There.
Why not try this exercise yourself?
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