I am grateful for many things.. the good life I had up to the point where I started getting sick (I'm not diagnosed'ed but I'm in very bad shape, I just posted a thread about that yesterday if you're interested).
I'm also grateful for my great family (well, my parents and brothers.. never started a family of my own).
And I'm also very grateful that this condition, whatever it is, is not affecting my mind.
There is one thing I've noticed here and on other ALS boards.. there is a lot of focus on God and religion. I don't have a problem with this at all, and I understand why people who believe in this would bring it up often in this difficult situation.
However, personally, I'm convinced there's nothing to any of these religious and/or spiritual claims.
Because of this, I sometimes feel like I'm in a different place than religious people with the same condition - they take comfort in their belief that there is someone helping them and that they will go to some afterlife.. both of which I believe are false.
This means then, that I think this life is all I have and when I die, that's it. So as you can probably understand, this makes it a completely different situation for me.
So I can't help but feel a little excluded and I can't take comfort in posts saying how God will help, etc.