Abby's Gratitude Journal
I would like to start making my Gratitude Journal right here on 7 Cups. 
This will be an "open journal", so if anyone wants to read and reply, you can do so.
A dear listener friend of mine here made the suggestion to start a gratitude journal, and I really think it will be a great idea as well. 
It is important, especially when times get difficult, to count our blessings and be thankful for what we already have. For example ... I've had to deal with the hurt of having some who I thought would be close friends not only stop talking to me, but lie to me about it and lead me on to believe that they would begin taling to me again. So ... what do I do? I think about the true and genuine friends that I already have and I am thankful for them ... including the one who suggested that I start a gratitude journal. 
So, what am I thankful & grateful for today? Well ... it might not sound like much to be actually thankful for, but it was this morning at work when I had poured off some of the specimen from a primary tube into the wrong short sample cup for a shared specimen setup because I was rushing myself and didn't see that the short sample cup was not positioned next to the correct primary tube. I noticed my mistake relatively soon after, but not before some of the results autofiled ... meaning that I had to find the correct primary tube and then program the accession number it was to be shared with to run the tests for the correct sample, and then call the patient's floor and tell the doctor or nurse that I need to change the result in the cimputer. So ... WHY am I grateful for this when I had made a mistake that I'm not really proud of having made? Because I showed that I was not afraid to own up to it, make myself accountable for it, and do what I needed to do to rectify the mistake.
August 13, 2019
I am grateful for the opportunity to use my (online) voice and speak out! Last night, I got blocked by a listener who was, in my opinion, not using listener duties & priveledges for the right reasons and not being sincere. It's true that I probably could have refrained from sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, but I am taking this opportunity to turn the negative experience of being blocked at a time when I couldn't protest it and attempt to turn it into something positive.
So ... what is that positive? I am going to try to put in a constructive but critical review on this listener to ensure that this doesn't happen to anyone else. I do not need this listener to begin chatting with me again, as I have several much more reliable and empathetic listeners who I also consider friends (one example being the listener friend who first suggested that I begin this Gratitude Journal - thank you once again, brother! 
). If I can't put in the review, I will have at least used my online voice to speak out about it in a positive and productive manner.
August 15, 2019
Ill make this short and sweet. 🙂 Im grateful to have been off work today because I did a lot of posting on the forums today on 7 Cups! 👍😊
August 18, 2019
I'm thankful for going to the Ghareeb Nawaz restaurant yesterday and trying the chili chicken biryani because it was delicious and I also brought home enough for 2-3 extra meals 
. I was looking forward to trying that all day yesterday and it was THE BEST! 
August 20, 2019
Im gonna be thankful for those who want to make and keep this site a safe place to post and chat. 👍 Doesnt matter now how you started out on here, what you went through, as long as were all realizing what we need to do to improve ourselves and improve the experience on this site so that people looking for help and support can find it and also pay it forward by staying on and contributing on the forums after their issues are resolved 👍
Those that make the decision to turn away from bad influences and doing wrong and to turn their lives around despite all they went through in the past are making perhaps their most difficult decision ... but also their most important and their bravest decision 👍
August 21, 2019
This one will be kinda redundant because its important to me, but I just wanna say that Im thankful to those friends who share with me and dont consider my friendship with them as just an option. Because todays world seems to emphasize temporary and short-lived pleasure, that makes genuine friendships where everyone truly shares and cares more important 👍❤️🎈
@AbbyHarris1976
I love reading your gratitude journal ☺.
I am grateful to all the 7cups users who are working together to keep this website supportive to be what it is actually a family a community.
Today's world it's so true that there are two type problems people faces, one is that one wants to share but no one is there to listen him, and other is that one problem is that one persons ignores others when they shares things to them. This actually affects one a lot, but it's so good that we have some people in our life who shares things to us and rememebrs us and as well listens to us ☺.
Hugs to all the people who brightens our day as without them our days will be a dim one.
August 27, 2019
I'm thankful for my Dad recovering well after going to the hospital Sunday afternoon with pain in his side. It turned out he had a kidney stone and had to have a procedure that night to put a stent in his kidney to open the blockage. He said that the pain was absolutely gone after he woke up from the operation. He's going to have that stone obliterated with ultrasonic shockwaves later. These last 9 months, he's had several urological problems and even has a nonfunctional right kidney, so I think when that stone is gone, he'll be through the worst of it.
@AbbyHarris1976
I hope your dad get well soon🙏. Sending healing hugs to him. I can understand that the procedures can be tough, but am sure things will be fine😃.
September 1, 2019
I am thankful to two of my best friends here on 7 Cups ... my soul sister and my soul brother These two are true friends and also very good listeners in that they are empathetic and understand the importance of emotional validation.
Anyone can tell someone to think more positively, but if you tell them about something that is troubling you and they do not validate it, then they can tell you to think positive until they run out of breath and it will still not happen until they can learn to validate painful emotions.
I am thankful to have listener friends here that understand this concept and that we all work together to walk the journey of our lives.
September 7, 2019
I am thankful for the very thoughtful, inspiring, and insightful feed posts that Ive been reading (and upvoting & reposting lately). 😍 Some of yall thoughtful people have really made some good points and write very beautifully as well. 👍😊
Even if you dont upvote and repost my posts in return ... I just wanna say that youre all an inspiration here on 7 Cups. Your beautiful and elegant words inspire me, and that is why I keep upvoting & reposting your feedposts. 😊 You all should really consider starting a diary thread because your words are poetic. 😊
Please - keep up the good work! 👍😊😀
September 25, 2019
Its been a long time, but I wanna get to posting entries in here again! 💕❤️
Last week was a stressful week for me, particularly in terms of work stress. On one morning before I was to work OT (and subsequently made a mistake at my workstation that caused a delay in completing my work), I had a difficult chat with a listener friend that left me in tears and not feeling well afterwards. I think we were both under a lot of work stress and I should not have been chatting with him that morning ... I needed to talk to someone who was gentle, patient, and calm and maybe he was not in that frame of mind to chat with me in the way that I needed. Not gonna blame him ... thats just what happened.
Okay, so what am I grateful for after all that? I am immensely thankful to my other dear listener friend, who is like a brother to me, for providing that calming and supportive chat later last week that I really needed that week. 😊 My stress and inner pain began to fade and I felt more relaxed after that conversation 😊👍💕
September 26, 2019
This evening, Im going to our neighborhood tavern here in Michigan with my family and my neighbor friends across the street 😊🍻🍹
Im looking forward to talking, laughing, and sharing! 👍😀 One of my favorite memories in that pub was beating my Dad and brother in shuffleboard 😂 and then the time when my brother challenged Dad to shuffleboard and got shut out! 🤣