To the wonderful people I have met here, (who have cringed, shaken their heads, showed me encouragment, indulged my quirkiness and been there when I log on to get my Hero fix)

To my Family, I love them now matter what our issues

To my four legged family, who greet me at the door after a long day and who happily hog the couch

To finally standing up to my bully Team Leader and making her "please explain" the comments she had made about me "behind my back", having her back down and requesting and getting a new "shop"

To understanding that I don't have to feel bad because I am not what others want me to be and that It's my opinion of myself that's most important

To the scales..for showing me I have letting go of 8.5kg (18.7pounds) that I NEVER EVER want to get back (half way there )

To being alive, me, thriving, having a little money in the bank, food in the frig, work, breathing, my car working, the sun on my face and the good and the bad

Thank you

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May the bad things get lost on the way to you door!

I like your attitude, LW! And I'm very glad that your'e having a day to yourself, and happy with life.

I'm definitely grateful for all of the wonderful people I have met through the Gatchaman fandom, and the friends I have made. I am also grateful for thw way the fandom has shown me a new hobby of writing, and I'm even more grateful that some people even seem to enjoy these things that I write primarily for myself (yes, I admit it, I write what *I* want to write ).

I'm also grateful for my wonderful family, whom I love with all of my heart.

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Sounds like a perfect day, LW.

No one gains any wisdom in this world except through experience, that's for sure -and adversity is the best teacher even if it's not so easy to appreciate the lessons while they're occurring!

A toast to life! (lifts wine glass...)

A gratitude diary!! What a great idea I think I should start doing that myself.

I do something opposite, and keep a diary of rants and raves. Whenever something bugs me I write it down, then delete it off my computer. symbolically it's not a problem any more and it's helped me by thinking of what it is I'm actually bothered about, and that way I can take possitive stepd to make amends!!

I really do like this idea though... Give me something to think about on those days when nothing goes wrong, and focuses more on the possitive that life has to offer.

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. - HELEN KELLER

I've just stumbled into this magnificant thread, which I didn't happen to have had the pleasure to take part of due to my period of absence from this board, and which was so most opportunely brought to life again on this very day when I'm finding myself a bit in the lows! Hence, I must first show my gratitude for having found this thread this very morning, which has immediately helped me to look at the brighter side of things ... thanks, LW! I'm going to write down things as if I'm shouting them at myself so my eyes would open even wider!

I am grateful to have found friends like all of you through the Gatchaman fandom to whom I know I can turn to when I need comfort, even simply by your presence or by your unconditional friendship when sharing highs and lows! Being able to share art and writing on a subject we all like, but which we not always find with whom to share in person, is an added bonus!

I am so grateful for having a patient husband and two lovely kids whom I love and adore, and who are the ones who keep me going when RL isn't so friendly, especially when not all other, outside family members are so! I would be so lost without them!

I am grateful to have had a lovely mum, who's still taking care of me from above and whose examples I like to follow, and for still having my caring Dad around although I was so close to lose him lately!

Apart from lovely friends like you, I'm also so grateful to have lots of other friends around me who respect and support me and whom I consider family too!

I am grateful to have a roof on my head, food to eat, health to a certain extent that I can say normal, and other basic things I take for granted when lots of other people around the world look at them as luxuries!

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to turn a hobby of mine in a part-time job (even if not such a stable one!) when I had no other option but to quit work in order to take care of my kids!

I am grateful to be able to say that I've learnt, and am still learning from all the negative events which life offered and always offers, and which help me to strive to be a better person each and every day that passes!

I am also not ashamed to say that I'm grateful that I've never lost the child in me, naiveness and all, even though this acts against me sometimes!

I'm sure that this thread could be constantly expanded since I'm also certain that each day that passes, each and every one of us can be grateful of something new or of something which we've skipped to mention out of a long list once we all have the opportunity to be grateful of being alive ...

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!