Topic of gratefulness - an inquiry (for SERIOUS DISCUSSION only)

I wanted to pleasantly involve some of your all's optional and voluntary participation in an academic music project on the topic of Thanksgiving. The answers given will be collaborated into a musical program that will be set to Chamber Orchestra.

(It would be lovely if one can answer all the questions, though you don't have to. Answering any single one would be greatly helpful!)

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1 - What/Who in your life do you feel indebted to? Furthermore, is there anything/anyone that you feel profusely you wouldn't have positively made this far in life without?

2 - What additional things in your personal life would you be kindly thankful for, if it were to also come true?

3 - What additional things in your community, or perhaps the world at large , would you also be thankful for, if it were to come true? (Even if you feel it may not realistically come true in your own life time)

4 - What do you believe you've done or given to others to make them appreciate you? (Don't worry about others judging you for being boastful. If it's true and genuine, please proudly boast it!)

5 - What haven't you yet done/given which you would like/love to? (Even if you feel you may not realistically achieve this goal in your lifetime!)

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I do have just a couple of restrictions:

1 - While slight and minimal reference to God or religious materials (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Greek Mythology, Reincarnation, Paganism, etc.) is completely fine, please try to answer these questions as secularly as possible. (note - Please don't deliberately and willfully try to add a touch of irregular religious reference, simply because I said a little reference to religion is fine. In other words, kindly don't try to stretch the boundaries, just to see how far you can.)

2 - Minimal lightheartedness and goofiness is completely fine, but please do try to be genial and warm and to have some emotional depth to your response. While I'm not asking you to sacrifice sincerity for upright, attractive-sounding answers, I do ask kindly that you please try not to make your answers silly enough that people reading it won't take this project seriously.

A warm thank you to all who do participate and give meaningful, well-thought-out, and heart-felt answers!

I am indebted to and greatful to my math teacher. She cannot be described as just another teacher , she is a person that allows us to grow . She gave us valuable lessons about life that i feel are priceless. I hope she is doing well.

I very much like your answer. Thanks for your contribution.

Can you expand a little bit on the life lessons she teaches?

Every detail of it will potentially be a meaningful addition to my project.

Folks, if you don't have anything meaningful to contribute to this (Serious only) thread, please just don't respond at all.

Very good. You have been warned.

Oh no, you don't think something can and will be done?

@Lincoy3304, thanks greatly for your nicely thought-out response.

One thing I've noticed from the abundance of responders of this questionnaire on other forums is, just as you do, they mention or reference education. For you, you talk about books and intelligence, literacy skills and talent. For @x_U_U_x, the responder before you here, it was his/her math education, and her/his teacher who taught it to her/him; as well as other valuable life lessons.

I like to Invite you to Spend some time to think about the following questions.

1 - what specific areas in education do you think are currently lacking or could be expounded in this world? (It can involve technology, methods of distributing education (to those who need it most), specifically academic subjects that aren't taught enough, etc.)

2 - Is there anything academically-related that you feel you'd nicely be thankful to have, in addition to that which you have now?

Your optional answers to these questions are also helpful to my project.

@ATurnMarso has had his/her spam posts deleted by a moderator and has since been blocked by me from participating in this thread; and any other threads that I may establish. Two weeks of disruptive posting is enough.

The disruptive spam was as young as less than one-day-old. The moderator has removed a series of 7 or 8 posts by him/her, 5 of which took place within 24 hours before your response here.

lol You can express what changes you would be thankful for, while keeping chill on the sarcasm; as much as I understand how angry the system can cause people at times.

What you're ultimately saying is that you would have better gratitude towards a more economically balanced society; where, for example, the rich isn't promoted to become richer; where corporate, for another instance, doesn't easily grab our hard earned money, just to provide us half-mediocre services that exploited the genuine work that we put in, just to have the very money that we would eventually be lead to waste on said half-mediocre services.

(As a developed answer to Question 3)

If this or something similar is what you're saying, I can definitely respect that sentiment; as I think you make a very strong point.

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Further discussion:

If it were up to you, what do you think are some real-life methods, tried or untried, that might help counteract these?

I like that. @FavelaSwag

One thing special about your answer is that you are the first to provide a subject matter which discusses changes that you would appreciate to see. Everyone who's responded here so far has very meaningful and fruitful responses that I can and will definitely use for this project of mine, but your answer is unique.

So, when you say 'have actual money to fight corporate lobby funds', what does this specifically encompass? Are you saying that we should pool our money towards more independent services and realize that what cooperate says we need we don't actually "need"?

I want to hear your specific method.

p. s. I'm grateful greatly for your time and participation in this project! All three of you pf whom have responded so far

Do you know what message I'm sending out, with the music that I'm composing?

It's that, the power of gratitude and indebtedness fuels the human soul to want to do more and give more. (When people say they appreciate you for such and such, have you noticed how great it makes you feel? Making you want to ... do and contribute more of what you already were?)

When we appreciate that we have the human capacity to understand economic unfairness, it empowers people to want to do what? Fix the problem, right?

I'm using my music to spread my "gospel": that gratitude is truly one of humanity's immortalities. These immortalities are: forgiveness, gift-giving, empathy, music, and of course, gratitude.

One day, our bodies will be recycled back into the Earth, as we give our physical makeup back to where it was made. But, what lives on in the hearts of humans is our dynamic ability to thank one another for what we do and what we are.