Happy Thanksgiving!

In the previous post, I asked this question: "What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?" So I guess it's only fair that I answer the question myself.

So what am I thankful for this Thanksgiving? Here is my (somewhat long) list of things and people I am thankful for.

I am thankful for my parents. I am extremely lucky to be born to parents with a strong sense of values, who passed on these values to me, and who gave and continue to give me their unconditional love and support despite the crazy things I have done over the years.

I am thankful for my siblings. I am probably one of the rare few whose relationship with her siblings was not colored too vividly by sibling rivalry. They're all my big brothers who are there to support and protect me, sometimes even from myself.

I am thankful for friends past and present. These people made my life colorful and even if I don't speak to many of them nowadays, I will always be grateful that the path of my life crossed with theirs.

I am thankful for my job. I have such a fabulous job! As a freelance writer, I work when I feel like working and sleep when I feel like sleeping. Though it takes discipline to meet the deadlines and demands that my clients impose upon me and sitting in front of the computer all the time has made me gain too much weight, this is the career I was born for and am happy to have for the rest of my life.

I am thankful for my exes. Without my exes, I probably won't have grown to be the person I am now. They all made me a stronger, more understanding, more considerate and much less selfish person. I still hate what I allowed them to do to me, but I won't deny anymore that I learned a lot from them.

I am thankful for my fiancé. If I learned a lot from my exes, I am constantly learning from him. The two of us are so alike and yet so different in many ways. Each and every interaction I have with him teaches me the true meaning of the word "commitment." His devotion is unparalleled, though I try to reciprocate it as much as I can whenever I can.

I am thankful for this blog. I have worked on a lot of blogs over the years, some mine and some belonging to other people. This blog, however, is the only one I have voluntarily spent a lot of my free time on without expecting much in return. It may not look much right now, but this is a work of love and I am going to find ways to improve it as soon as possible.

I am thankful for my present readers. I don't check this blog's stats everyday, but I don't have any illusions. I know that, for now at least, there are only a handful of people reading my scribbling here. Thank you for spending time on my little project.

Happy Thanksgiving!