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I didn’t grow up with Thanksgiving, but after years of living in the US, it’s become one of my favorite holidays. There’s just something so great about taking the time to reflect on what you’re thankful for… and to share those feelings with family and friends, too. Just as many of us will go around the table on Thursday to share what we’re grateful for, I thought it’d be cool to share those sentiments with our wikiFamily and wikiFriends here, too. Forgive me, those of you who don’t celebrate, or who celebrated in October… but if you’re game to share your thoughts anyway, please do :slight_smile:

I’ll start:

Offline, I’m very grateful for my family, near and far, and for our health and wellbeing. We are lucky ducks to have one another and to have a roof over our heads and a chance to grow and bond and enjoy our days in relative safety and security. Becoming a parent last year has made me realize that more than ever before, and it hits home at the moment seeing so many folks lose that sense of safety and security with the recent Californian wildfires, so I’m extra grateful for it this year. More trivially, I’m also grateful that we’ve reached the stage of fewer diapers to buy and fewer bottles to clean, as our gal becomes a toddler:slight_smile:

Online, similarly, I feel very lucky to spend my days in this helpful, supportive, and relatively safe community. There’s a lot happening around the world and online these days that’s upsetting and divisive. The fact I feel so very little of that when I log onto wikiHow each day is really amazing to me. Our community is diverse and filled with passionate people from all different walks of life… and yet (the occasional short-lived troll aside) we form a community where kindness and good humor is paramount. Together, we create a place where people can come for help without judgment, share their well-meaning advice without backlash, and generally talk through any editing disagreements until they figure out what’s best for readers. I think that openness and collaborative spirit that regular editors here seem to share is pretty incredible… It draws us together instead of pulling us apart. Not only does that make our community a more enjoyable place to “hang out,” but it also improves the help we can provide to others. 

So really, when it comes down to it, I’m grateful to each of you for making it so! I was going to try to tag active people to say a direct thanks… but once I pulled info on who’s made edits in the last few months, it got into the zone where I’d break the forums with too many tags, hah. So you’ll just have to know I’m speaking to *you*when I say thanks for making wikiHow the kind of community in which we all want to spend time helping others:slight_smile:

Your turn! What are you thankful for? It doesn’t have to relate to wikiHow at all… Mine just does since I spend quite a bit of time here:wink:… but offline or online, what are you grateful for this year?

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Well, offline, I’m very grateful for everything I have - a roof over my head, some money and over the last year and a half (few jobs including Uber, GrubHub, and Instacart among the many). I’m healthy and doing well. I have a (sort-of) working car (remember in 2015 when I just couldn’t stand it when I’d find more breaking down on my car after having problems trying to pay for the car?) I have family who sort-of cares: including my mother, my two twin brothers and my (now-aging) 90 year-old grandmother (mother’s mother, my grandfather on my mothers side died before my dad in 2015) and I never got to meet my fathers parents since they died when my father was a kid. (I only know about their grave in my local town and the stories my parents told me about them when I was a child.)

Online is a different story. I can’t complain. I’m thankful that I have many wonderful friends who I get to work with to build something as constructive as wikiHow all while sharing the knowledge I’ve learned. And although my time has become a bit limited as of late (with my Uber Driver job picking up), I am still thankful that I can still participate.

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@Anna Yey, she is a toddler now.:slight_smile:Online I am grateful for so many reasons. I doubt I’ll be able to put them all in one post. I’ll try. wikiHow with its mission of imparting knowledge with articles and following it policy of assuming good faith has allowed so much goodness in it that a woman such as me from another country, with an okay knowledge of various topics is still accepted and even many times celebrated for kindness. It is rare to find a place on earth where kindness from non prominent people is celebrated or acknowledged. I feel accepted here and have found ways I can share affection, use my knowledge of computers-patrolling, editing, writing, etc share my knowledge about life when I can, and that I found genuine, sweet, encouraging, brilliant, and fun friends here. Where else could I have found this. Offline I know how much of a reckless soul I have been since childhood. I’ve always wanted to learn, know more, find the truth, find out why people behave in a certain way. If it weren’t for my family’s strictness, I would have gotten into some serious trouble exploring the world. I m grateful that they have allowed me to stay with them, all these years. My house is big. I’ve seen various forms of demons right here in us. And I’ve learnt to tackle and stop most of them. Never been considered useful for anything. That’s why when I am praised here I just wonder if. During school through my work life, i never believed any praise or applaud that I got for work. It was since I joined wikiHow that I have been learning to accept, just accept. Accept praise, accept friends, accept the situation and to make it better because I believe it can be better. I’ve never known that ‘foreigners’ whom I used to look at as people far above the third world or the developing countries are just like us. I’ve realised it is heart that beats in us and we are so similar. I wonder at how brilliant people on the other side of my world are. All this happened because there is wikiHow. I genuinely hope no one troubles or distinguishes between the community of volunteers and the haus. And we look at both as one. I hope we dont write you or them but look at both as us. I hope wikiHow rises higher like the rising sun.

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I celebrated my first Canadian thanksgiving this year, as last year I lived in Montana, but here I go!

wikiHow Thankfulness:

I’m thankful that @Anna has given me a final chance in the community. She could have blocked me for all the bad things I did, but she didn’t. I am thankful for my second chance. I am thankful for making so many great new friends ( @R2_d2000 , @Vishshua ) and I am thankful for my old ones. ( @RubyRoseRain , @P-Hills ) I am also thankful for what a great community all of us editors have made! I am thankful also for the awesomeness of wikiHow and editing.

Offline Thankfulness:

I am thankful that my dads health has began to get better and for my siblings and relatives. I am thankful that my puppy has been fully trained and that the move from Montana to Edmonton went well. I am thankful to have made new friends at my new home and to have managed to keep up with school and life!

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I’m so thankful for my wonderful family, my house, good health, my Faith, and my many other blessings. I’m primarily grateful for my awesome family for being so supportive and helpful, especially during the last few days since my leg broke. I’m also super thankful for my friends, (offline, and on wikiHow) for their sympathy and support, particularly over the past few days. It’s overwhelming and very touching to think about how my family and friends have helped me.

On wikiHow, I’m grateful for the community spirit, and friendly atmosphere. I only had a couple of friends before I joined. Not so anymore. I’m grateful for the awesome friends I’ve made on here, and the kindness (and patience) of the administrators. Also the editing and work to be done on wikiHow, far from being a tedious thing, is a great blessing, and one I’m very thankful for. 

There are many small and large things I have to be grateful for, and if I even tried to list them all here, I’d be working till Christmas, and probably be blocked from wikiHow for taking up too much room. :) 

I thank God everyday for the many blessings He has showered upon me, and now that I’ve written this, I’ve been reminded of much more to thank Him for.

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I’m grateful for my family (some of the time), my wonderful youth group, band, and church.

I’m blessed that I am always somehow provided for (by a certain One) even though the money sometimes runs a little short, and even more blessed that there’s always something I can give to others.

I’m even trying to be thankful for my health problems because I’m sure they are in an ultimate plan for the good of the world, even though they aren’t pleasant.

There are so many other things I could mention, but I’ll finish up with the obvious; I’m so thankful for wikiHow and all the wonderful, amazing wikiHowers! I don’t know what I would do without this great site and the people who make it so spectacular:wink:

Thank you all!

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Online: I’m grateful for all my friends who stand by me, even if I never remember to actually post happy birthdays on time. Also for being there for me when I was going through a rough time. I’m so thankful for wikiHow, for giving me things to do when I really did nothing productive during the day and felt like I needed to do something.

Offline: I’m thankful for my husband, for taking care of the kids when I was sick, behind on deadlines, or just plain done with existing. I’m thankful for my sister, for babysitting when I had finals and discussing anime with me when I was feeling down. And of course, I’m thankful for my kids who kept me going.

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Even though I already had Thanksgiving, I’ll still say what I’m thankful for.

Online: I am thankful for my wikiFriends (Anna, Vishshua, TheYoungWriter, and Joshua R. Liu) being there for me and wikiHow for being a place to go whatever mood I’m in.

Offline: I’m thankful for the weekly calls I get from my sister (she’s in university) and for my parents (especially me mom) who are there for me lots. I’m also thankful that I’m discovering more new books and reading them.

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I’m really grateful for you too @TheArtsPerson !

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This year has shown me I have so much to be thankful for.

Online: I am grateful for this wonderful website and the great people I’ve met here. From the first time I discovered wikiHow I felt I belonged. Thanks one and all.

Offline: I thank God for His many blessings, my friends, and my family. After battling (and winning) a serious illness, I have learned to take nothing for granted. Every day is a miracle.

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That was… inspiring to read…

We’re so blessed to have you as well @KKatz74 !

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I’m very thankful for the chance to be in a life where I have first world resources like the internet and even easily accessible food. Not everybody has that. And the opportunities to get an education, a career, and freedom.

And for wikiHow too, because as Anna said, this world is divisive. Many places on the Internet are gathering grounds for people who I’d like very much not to meet. This website has one of the friendliest communities and has really helped me, truly.

The first thing that came to mind, though, was the people I have met in my life, wikiHowians and otherwise. Whenever I have a real conversation with the people I love, I have a great time, which leaves me happy for the rest of the day. I’m grateful for those moments even when people who don’t know me say they believe in me, or when a friend says they love me. It’s not easy to make meaningful connections at times.

I don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving with the turkey and such, but I’ll participate in giving thanks to what I have and to you guys:slight_smile:

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Thanksgiving was on October 14 in Canada, but I’m thankful for many things. Namely, computer technology which allows for diabetes management (e.g. FreeStyle Libre), modern medicine including immunizations, the eradication of smallpox, the internet and all of the information on it, being born in a great country like Canada, my wikiFriends, and much more!

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Online: I’m thankful for discovering such an amazing collaborative community! Discovering WikiHow has given me an incredible way to distract myself from some of the things going on in real life.

Offline: I’m so incredibly thankful for my doctors, nurses, caretaker, and medications. All of the scientific and medical research that has been done is pretty awesome! With modern medicine, I’m living a life that wouldn’t be possible even 20 years ago. 

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Thanks, @TheYoungWriter :slight_smile:

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Offline I am thankful for being alive, having a wonderful family and being able to do college early and learn a lot and see so many lovely friends.

I am thankful to have worked with all of you.

I am not editing but sometimes check in on the forums.

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Both offline and online I am grateful for my true friends and family. A lot of people I don’t have the time to write all down. That has ever made me special or heard. Anyone who has bothered to take the time when they didn’t have to. ( @Anna @Adelaide @Eric @SarahB are a few people on this wH list) Without all of you I wouldn’t be able to do this whole life thing. 

Today I will be raising a drink and a thought to every single one of you and to everyone else that can’t make it to our table(s) this year. Wishing everyone across wH and outside a happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving. 

<3

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Thanks for starting this thread! 

Thanksgiving is a great time to step back for a moment and realize all of the things that we often take for granted on a daily basis. I’ll highlight some of the many things that I am grateful for this year. 

I definitely don’t live in a big city, but I do often see homeless people around town on my way into work or as I head to the grocery store. This reminds me to be appreciative that I have somewhere warm to rest my head each night. It also makes me thankful for the many community outreach groups like our local crisis center, which is a volunteer-driven organization that provides immediate and non-judgmental support for individuals facing emotional, food, or financial crisis.

It seems like our country (the US) becomes more and more divided each day, with deep divides between our values and moral compasses. Being part of such an amazing online community like wikiHow provides a space where I can forget about these divides and just collaborate with a diverse group of people from around the world. On that note, I am appreciative for the big picture stewardship that @JackHerrick and @ElizabethD provide to this amazing project. Their genuine kindness that they’ve demonstrated to me in-person and on the wiki reminds me that they truly care about wikiHow, as well as each person in the community. And, of course, we can’t forget @Anna , whose leadership on a day-to-day basis makes everyone feel like they can call wikiHow a home. Anna also treats each of us as a friend, and I’m so appreciative for her ongoing friendship. 

I’m also incredibly thankful for good health. I’ve seen a lot of friends and family this past year who have undergone health challenges, including cancer and ongoing battles with Lupus. I try to remember to cherish each day of good health and remember that there are people all around us dealing with physical, mental, and emotional challenges that we don’t even know about. Many of these people battle these challenges in silence. 

I am thankful that I have a secure job and work with caring co-workers. I am thankful that I don’t have to live in fear of military conflict each day. I am thankful that I have a car, good friends, family that I can hop in a car and go drive to visit, and so much more. 

I hope that everyone else is able to pause, even briefly, during this holiday season to recognize and appreciate some of the things you are grateful for. 

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Offline: being with my family, and brutally eating the turkey with no regretting whatsoever. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And also appreciating what we have, and a lot more that would take too long to type down.

Online: wikiHow. What were you expecting, really?

1st of all, man that’s sad right there. Homeless people on the street and your friends having poor health. 2nd of all, you must have like arthritis or something after typing all of that. Hope your hands are okay!:confused:

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… you really think so?