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While I appreciate the profound thought that went into this opinion piece (and I don't disagree with its premise), I wonder just how hard it would be to just be thankful we're alive and reasonably healthy and actually HAVE allies of any stripe or intention, AS WELL AS gently let those to whom it applies know that it might just be because of us that they have a job and that it's the right thing to do. Just because there's a "right thing to do" doesn't mean that people have to or that they will.
I agree that we do not give out enough thanks and gratitude. I sign almost every email with a "thank you". If one can understand that we live in a fluid world where negative memes are shared twice if not more frequently than "good news" memes, one tends to see life from either one of two bubbles. Fear-based capturing or viewing and living life with a pair of rose-colored glasses. The fear-based living is irrational in many aspects and complicates one's ability to see gratitude for sure.
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Wow! Cranky much? The man who drives my bus gets paid, but I thank him. My HIV doctor gets paid, probably a lot, but I thank her. Showing appreciation for any act of kindness from any source helps build a personal sense of grace and joy. One of the most destructive things we can do is express entitlement, especially when it is in response to another's expression of entitlement.
June 7, 2019