Bryan W. Alaspa 1The weekend for being thankful
November 28th 2009 02:39
Thanksgiving is a great holiday all the way around. It is a holiday that isn’t about sales or getting together in large groups before the stores open. It isn’t about trying to get gifts. There aren’t commercials ad nauseum with a dancing turkey trying to tell you to buy their particular brand of turkey. At no point do you see a guy trying to do sign language to his deaf girlfriend and then hand her a turkey as the music plays. No, none of that. The entire holiday is what I think a holiday should be. It’s about getting together with your family, eating a tremendous amount of food and then watching football or napping or both.
The other thing that is important is that it is a holiday set up for you to sit there and think about life and what you’re thankful for. Having your family together is probably supposed to make you think about how grateful you are for your family. I certainly hope you are grateful for your family. I know I am grateful for mine. I love hanging out with them and I love spending time with my baby niece.
The fact that you have a tremendous amount of food, probably cooked by a beloved family member, should also serve to remind you to be thankful. There are soldiers in other parts of the world where it is dry and hot and filled with sand and there are many people who want to kill them getting their meal served to them in a line, from metal trays, on more metal segmented trays. Then they sit with their comrades in arms and eat. It’s about as home-like as they can make it, but come on. It isn’t the same as sitting across from your grandmother.
There are other parts of the world that don’t have enough food in the first place. Other countries, of course, do not celebrate Thanksgiving. Yes, Americans, it is an American holiday and the rest of the world does not celebrate it. For everyone else on the planet it’s Thursday. However, there are many parts of the world where they could not put together enough food for a feast if they did want to celebrate a Thanksgiving with their American friends. For crying out loud, there are places where the community eats tree rats just to get meat.
The fact we live in a great, safe country where we can all get together and have such a meal is something to be thankful for. In other parts of the world just trying to get together is dangerous. We live in a place where we can all gather around a piece of meat and great food and enjoy the comfort of home. We should be thankful for that.
Yes, right now, times are tough. Yes, there are people out of work. Yes, we are involved with two wars. Yes, the United States is not loved much in the rest of the world. All of these things are true, but doesn’t that make this holiday all that much more important? Isn’t it more important than ever to take time out of our crazy lives to remember why we should be thankful?
I think so. That’s why I love this holiday. I hope it remains as pure as it can be for as long as it can be.
The other thing that is important is that it is a holiday set up for you to sit there and think about life and what you’re thankful for. Having your family together is probably supposed to make you think about how grateful you are for your family. I certainly hope you are grateful for your family. I know I am grateful for mine. I love hanging out with them and I love spending time with my baby niece.
The fact that you have a tremendous amount of food, probably cooked by a beloved family member, should also serve to remind you to be thankful. There are soldiers in other parts of the world where it is dry and hot and filled with sand and there are many people who want to kill them getting their meal served to them in a line, from metal trays, on more metal segmented trays. Then they sit with their comrades in arms and eat. It’s about as home-like as they can make it, but come on. It isn’t the same as sitting across from your grandmother.
There are other parts of the world that don’t have enough food in the first place. Other countries, of course, do not celebrate Thanksgiving. Yes, Americans, it is an American holiday and the rest of the world does not celebrate it. For everyone else on the planet it’s Thursday. However, there are many parts of the world where they could not put together enough food for a feast if they did want to celebrate a Thanksgiving with their American friends. For crying out loud, there are places where the community eats tree rats just to get meat.
The fact we live in a great, safe country where we can all get together and have such a meal is something to be thankful for. In other parts of the world just trying to get together is dangerous. We live in a place where we can all gather around a piece of meat and great food and enjoy the comfort of home. We should be thankful for that.
Yes, right now, times are tough. Yes, there are people out of work. Yes, we are involved with two wars. Yes, the United States is not loved much in the rest of the world. All of these things are true, but doesn’t that make this holiday all that much more important? Isn’t it more important than ever to take time out of our crazy lives to remember why we should be thankful?
I think so. That’s why I love this holiday. I hope it remains as pure as it can be for as long as it can be.
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