I don't think this thread exists, though it is a first cousin to the happiness one, I suppose. I read somewhere that it is healthy to have a sense of gratitude, and list at least three things each day. I won't do it daily, but here are three that come to mind: I'm grateful I was able to take a 4- mile hike this morning and watch the sunrise. I'm grateful I was able to buy a nice breakfast at a pleasant place. I'm grateful that I still have the privilege of thinking and writing clearly (at least it seems so to me).
I'm grateful you created this thread That's it's fall and Halloween That we have this excellent little community and that you named the thread Gratitudinous!
I spent the morning working on firewood for my outdoor boiler with my wife of 44 years. I save all of the hardwood slab wood, which is just basically waste from the saw mill, bring it home on the log truck ,and then just saw it into 3 foot lengths. I spent the morning working with my wife, utilizing waste wood from my mill to heat my house for free. I am not sure it gets much better than that.
For the new baby sleeping on the couch next to me. For the family that surrounds her and me. For the four legged family that is a part of it all.
My sometimes sore knee has been behaving well lately. The pleasure of raking leaves. My daughters have grown into healthy and caring people.
A partner who believes in me even on the days I don’t. The peace of mind I lacked as a younger man The little pinch between my ribs that tells me I gave a decent amount of effort at the gym today
I'm grateful that the hard crunchy thing in my discount-store chocolate bar was some kind of loose road-chipping, and not a cross-section of one or t'other end of a rat. I'm grateful that the infinitesimally thin transparent tube sticking out of my ear is probably a soluble stitch, and not a morgellon. I'm grateful that the window is blocked up with children's books, and not cricket almanacs. I'm grateful I can write words, and not involuntary sounds. I'm grateful mercy came first, and not providence. I'm grateful, and indebted.
I’m grateful this thread exists. I’m grateful I have a house and food. I’m grateful that I have a job that pays me well. I’m grateful to be alive in this century so I could enjoy all the wonders of modern tech.
I'm grateful that I'm losing a bit of weight. I'm grateful that while I may have to skip carbs and sugars, I still got my proteins. I'm grateful I'm alive when I could have died so many times already.
Grateful about climbing stairs without issue. Having discovered yoga for real. Sixty-five degrees F on a November day in the upper American midwest.
And, that my mother is still with me at age 96, and sharp enough to remind me that I'm not as young as I used to be.
I thought it was, so googled it and, just after a few items, one of which referred to it as neologism, this also came up on the first page of my search: @Xoic you're a result on a google search. You're famous, kid!
LOL, yeah, but the only people who will search for it are people reading this thread... (probably just you).
No - the word we're looking for is Grateful, I'm tempted to change it every time I look at this thread
This book (if I read the preceding pages correctly) lists it among "factitious terminations" formed by sticking Latin endings onto English words. ==== -Ous is a termination which carries weight with it, and might be admitted, as in multitudinous, and in other similar words in which it has obtained a situation; as - magnitudinous, gratitudinous, solitudinous, plenitudinous, &c. This leads to -ousity, and -asity, an extension of an adjective into a substantive, as monstrousity. ==== Anecdotes of the English Language, Chiefly regarding the local Dialect of London and its Environs; whence it will Appear that the Natives of the Metropolis, and its Vicinities, have Not Corrupted the Language of their Ancestors; in a letter from Samuel Pegge, 1803.
Define "real", I think you know what I mean by it, and it's made up of letters and syllables. You can find it online. Probably not in "official" dictionaries, but does that mean it doesn't exist?
I know. And my answer was essentially genuine. You can find ]the word in the "The Online Community Dictionary by Farlex" (gratitudinous (definition-of.com) as (Adjective) of or relating to gratitude; generated by or originating in feelings of gratitude Usage: "As the term would suggest, gratitudinous altruism refers to altruistic behavior that one performs in response to having been the object of altruistic behavior on the part of another."—Laurence Thomas, *Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character* (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990), p. 130. But you won't find it in say the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2d Edition. Still I think it's a cool word that gets the point across. Even if the self-proclaimed powers-that-be don't acknowledge it.
I'm grateful I can post here and have my posts read by interesting and interested people. I'm grateful to be alive. I'm grateful I survived my youthful shenanigans with little residual damage (that I'm aware of anyway).
