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Everyone has one. lets try to recognize and be grateful of what we have!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Tall. Forever slim no matter what I eat. Stable supportive family.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wicked smaht. And generally good genes - no family illnesses or anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have known some wonderful people who have helped me to grow into a person I don't entirely hate. Most of the time, I'm depressed, but I feel privileged to know people who remind me of things that are worth fighting for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A really good immune system. I get a cold maybe once every two years and they only last for about three days. I also don't get fevers (nobody knows why), which I know is kinda paradoxical but my immune system somehow is really good at dealing with infections despite this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Same. My partner calls me a fortress. She is frequently coming down with colds, like once a year at least. And covid twice. Meanwhile, I haven't got noticeably sick since the first lockdowns.

Hope that doesn't just mean I'm contagious af. I keep testing negative on the RATs anyway

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

i live on one of the richest, most developed countries in the world with a good social system and universal healthcare and retirement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A lot of people saying white + male, I'm not white but I'm light skinned in a country where colourism is a social plague, random people literally call me "whitey" and "blondy" despite me literally having a black mother, when I tell them I'm not white they reply "yes, you are", and I'm like "OK, mfer, apparently you know better than me to what ethnic group I belong". Can't say I haven't benefited from it, the police has almost never given me shit (they did once to be exact). I'm also a heterosexual cis man, and even tho I was born and raised in the poorest district of a big city my father always told me to cultivate my intellect, so I learned multiple languages (English being one of those), went to community college, taught myself software development, etc. I didn't have the biggest head start in life, but compared to my friends in the hood, and women and immigrants across the whole country I simply cannot complain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My dad died back in 2016 when I was 25 so I got an early inheritance to invest at a good time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yet at the same time... Good on him?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't feel any part of me that itches to make posts like this on the internet, and I appreciate that advantage.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Absolute, fanatical concentration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My hair turns copper-gold in the summertime when I'm out in the sun for a few days in a row.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it's a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Gotta practice thankfullness everyday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have an IQ of 123 in spacial recognition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If you're logic enough the next step is 1234

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Born in Europe, Not an immigrant, financially stable, free education, not part of any significant minority

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i have a decent understanding of unix-like systems.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

English teacher who made me write a 500 word essay every day for a semester.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

White + was lucky to get a good job early on + parents had enough capital in their home to guarantor for my home loan at 28.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno. I feel I get worse and worse at things the older I get.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, you did not die young?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I am helping many needy peoples.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I've experienced both extremes of fiscal class: inherited wealth and opportunity as well as prison and homelessness. It's a double edged sword, a great curse and advantage concurrently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I can usually unscramble 5- or 6-letter words on sight.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I guess being white male, and 198cm/6foot6 Though this is a curse also.

I am very comfortable with my own company also, and never get bored so many things to do and learn!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Being born in our times.

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