What do you think people would be jealous of you for i.e. what are you grateful for?

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Ive seen this trend going around on social media, i find MN to be a bit negative at times so wanted to ask what people are grateful for or what makes you feel lucky. Can be anything from shallow to more serious.

Thanks to some huge good luck and good timing, I’ve got a large pension pot aged 38 and probably don’t need to contribute any further to have a comfortable retirement. I’m planning to “retire” in some form as soon as the mortgage is paid off.

You’re extremely lucky.
At 58, I have one parent left and I’m so grateful. Lost one last year and it’s been hard but I do appreciate how fortunate I have been.

Im attractive
I had a child after fertility treatment
I left an abusive man
I married an amazing and solvent man
I have a career

But they dont see the other side so people maybe jealous but they dont know the inner workings of someone's life

Also ive had alot of jealous people ruin my self confidence. As they say you're very rarely bullied by an attractive person😂

I have a really, really lovely horse.

I live in Denmark which has been in vogue since the killing was shown. When DC were younger our childcare bill was a quarter of what my UK friends paid.

My job
My freedom
My lack of Mortgage - own house outright
Slim with big F cup natural boobs that pass the pencil test 🤣

Cool job, great pension, slim ankles, naturally full nicely shaped lips.

That said I'm 42 and had a honking large pimple in the centre of my face all week, so no one would have been looking at ankles or lips- and my coworkers also have said pension. So all I got is pimple 😅

I am not grateful for this because it doesn’t particularly my life, but I think some people think it would and would be jealous. Through marriage, I have a title. A proper one. As does our child. DH and I don’t tell anyone in everyday life, because we find it a bit silly and live a pretty ordinary life day-to-day. On the rare occasion when the aristocracy are mentioned in front of me, some people say things which make me realise they think having a title would be something they’d like. I think it’s a weird class thing. Anyway, I just keep my mouth shut!

I am an only child, and inherited the family home when my dad died, plus his very nice savings stash, so I am now very comfortably off. I had twins in my forties after years of worrying about infertility. I thought I’d be Single for ever but I met a man at a glamorous friends wedding, and he seems just about able to put up with me!
I’ve never put on weight and I have two lovely cats! So much to be grateful for.

Certainly nothing materially. Our house is, humble to say the least. As are the cars and holidays etc. We sometimes live on the breadline. This is unlikely to change anytime soon. Zero inheritance.

I do however have exceptional mental health and resilience despite childhood poverty and adversity. The thought of taking any psychiatric medication to get me through life is just an alien thought.

I have a natural intelligence. I didn’t go to school but was able to complete an OU degree and get a first, essentially with my eyes closed.

A husband who adores me and has done for 25 years. Safe to say I love him more with each passing year.

Three children and teens doing very well.

I would say I was incredibly emotionally rich.

All of my teens attract materially wealthy peers. Our house is always the poor house 🤣.

Never mind lol.

Slim ankles 😭 I’m in the best shape of my life but don’t think I’ll ever get those.

Sitting in my garden and it’s peace perfect peace… No trampolining kids, no barbecues, no vaping in hot tubs… Ah, the benefits of having grumpy old gits as neighbours!

I am grateful we sold our business and I can retire.
I am I grateful that both my kids got good grad jobs this year when many seem to be struggling.
I am grateful that I married my best friend. He makes me laugh and makes me feel loved and cherished every single day.

I have a beautiful house and a lovely idyllic life. I have chickens and a horse and lots of leisure time. I got cancer 2 years ago (now considered ‘incurable’ but no sign I’m actually going to die from it either). I had to stop working as was quite ill at the time. Dh said, don’t worry about money. I haven’t gone back to work. I spend time with my children and look after the house and take care of myself (and attend lots of hospital appointments 🙄). Dh pays me the equivalent of my former salary, so I don’t ever need to worry about money. Apart from the whole cancer thing 🤣 I live a very good life and am well loved.

Absolutely love this 😍

Well done that's fantastic

I think my ex friends were/are jealous of me for achieving what I have from less than a standing start on my own and just being me. I've had so many compliments from people this past year but it's just me. I try to handle things as well as I can.

I feel extraordinarily lucky - I was the single lady in her 30s who met the right man late and had children late 30s / early 40s.
He’s fantastic, the love of my life.
In addition I kept my career and did well at it (in no little part due to his support going part time when kids were young and I couldn’t), we have a fantastic 6-bed house with a tiny mortgage (did well in the London/South-East housing market), my mum and dad are still alive and recently moved nearby and we get on really well.

I actually don’t have any friends who have all of these things (good marriage+children+decent international career+friction-free family relationships) and I feel extraordinarily lucky.

The one thing I don’t have is a circle of close friends living nearby due to moves, this is a shame but the rest is enough. I do have friends where we used to live, from uni etc.

That is a wonderful thing - and if you are in education no doubt very well deserved.

Wow! 900 words per minute? I can manage 500 WPM and I thought that was good!

My husband is so kind, brave, funny, clever, loyal, generous, interesting, and very handsome. I have been through - and continue to go through - a lot of hardships in my life but I won the marriage lottery for sure.

I have the cutest, most beautiful 12 week old granddaughter! I am just so happy about her. I have plenty of other things going on in my life but everytime i think about her it makes me smile 😍

An amazing husband and great children I count my blessings everyday. Kids are sweet have the odd bicker but great together. We’ve worked very hard to have nice things and be able to afford two holidays a year one in the UK one abroad. We’ve lost friends over the years as our marriage is quite chilled and tend to not have anything heavy going on.

We’ve focused on building a home, the children being happy and just having peace not drama and we love it. We’ve got a really good circle of friends now and see often but make time for us all to just chill in the house or do days out together as a family. One thing we’ve learned is not posting stuff on Social Media. We don’t mind someone tagging us into the odd thing but otherwise we don’t hardly post anything on social media now.

We’ve noticed it fuels jealousy when people’s situations are not great and things are going well for us. It has damaged friendships over the years. We once posted pictures of us on holiday and unbeknown to us someone in our ex friendship circle had just lost their job and cancelled their family holiday. We got asked by another friend to take our pictures down. After that we started locking our profile down and choose our friends very carefully which has had such positive impact. We are also no longer friends with those people. Protecting your peace is so important.