GC 51: 100 things to be thankful for

1. Writing prompts so this blog doesn't die
2. My laptop so I can type on this blog
3. The dexterity of my fingers
4. Nail clippers
5. Trash cans and other means of appropriate disposal
6. People who work in the garbage disposal industry
7. Ethnographers who care about some of society's most overlooked people
8. The fact that anthropology is a field of study
9. Harvard Anthropology department
10. Events with amazing food
11. Chefs
12. Grocery stores
13. Aisles full of chips
14. Salsa
15. A personal taste for spicy food
16. Soy milk
17. Bilingual jokes
18. The ability to understand multiple languages
19. Songs that exist in multiple languages
20. YouTube
21. The ability to express oneself through video as a medium
22. Valentine's Day videos
23. NOT Valentine's Day
24. Satire
25. MAD Magazine
26. Bookstores where you can read magazines without buying them
27. Libraries
28. Cafés within libraries so you don't have to subject yourself to the misery of the stressful college library atmosphere
29. Baristas
30. Dream jobs
31. Imagination
32. Wildest dreams
33. Songs you can relate to
34. Serenades
35. Boys who can play guitar
36. Boys
37. Actually, make that foreign boys
38. Discriminating taste
39. Appreciation of the finer things in life
40. Never settling
41. The unattainability of perfection
42. Philosophy
43. Thinking too much
44. Thinking out loud
45. Finding love right where you are
46. Never being in the same place long enough to find love right where I am
47. Horrific timing that makes for good stories
48. A love of writing
49. Pen pals
50. Faraway friends
51. Having people to visit everywhere
52. Host families
53. "Real" family
54. Supportive parents
55. Grandma who's obsessed with me
56. Role models
57. The ability to be my own role model
58. Independence
59. Love of being alone
60. A propensity for self-introspection
61. Big words
62. Spelling bees
63. Honey
64. Spontaneously bursting into song
65. Karaoke joints
66. ABBA
67. IKEA
68. Interior designers
69. Modern apartments with huge windows
70. Big cities
71. Subway systems
72. Trains
73. Beautiful French train stations
74. Scenic countryside train rides
75. Never fearing the mountains in the distance
76. Never settling for the path of least resistance
77. Subtle references to songs
78. Inside jokes
79. Yellow hearts
80. Snapchat
81. Bitmojis
82. Digital representations of oneself
83. Online profiles
84. Ability to creep on others' online profiles to find out more about them or find potential gossip material
85. Gossip
86. Secrets
87. Trust
88. Loyalty
89. Dogs
90. Pugs
91. Being known as somebody who loves pugs
92. Distinct personality traits
93. Sense of pride in oneself
94. Ability to be humble
95. Respect for others' individualities
96. A sense of empathy
97. Acknowledgment of every person's unique story
98. The myriad of different people there are in this world to meet
99. The act of traveling and meeting people
100. The unwavering, intensifying desire to do just that.

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