Besides gorging ourselves, gaining 10 lbs and wanting to send our relatives to some permanent residence in Antarctica, Thanksgiving is pretty much a day for reflection. Not your actual reflection... that's altogether horrifying this time of year. No, it's a time to stop and realize that you have so much to be thankful for. Don't look at me like that. You do. You really do.
"But I'm in debt and my house burned down with my box of kittens still in it and my hair is falling out and I have chronic acne on my back!" I don't want to hear it. Even if you were just diagnosed with cancer, you still have your family. If you don't have family, then you have your friends. If you don't have friends, then there's no one to raid your fridge. There's always something to be grateful for.
Thanksgiving should be a day where we stop feeling bad for ourselves and we focus on the things that we already have. As some wise man or songwriter or drunk guy at a bar said: "It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got." Too much of the time, we're not looking at what we have as blessings, but thinking that we can only be blessed by getting more. If you have some sort of dead animal on a platter and a billion sides, that alone is something to be grateful for. Because you're not starving. If you fight constantly with your family this holiday, remember that at least you have a family, and at least you were invited in the first place.
So go forth, my friends with renewed thankfulness! While you're slipping slowly into a food-induced coma, try and remember that you are blessed and loved.
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