Next week is Thanksgiving. Most of us look forward to the American thanksgiving holiday! Not all -- but most of us -- will be off from work. Many people have travel plans and be with there family and friends. And the stores are full of Thanksgiving things. Everywhere we look, around we see excitement and preparations for the holiday.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays! The reason is because it doesn’t belong to one culture or one religion. It belongs to all of us: Young, old, male, female, black, white, brown, American-born and even to every single immigrant here in the USA. It is a beautiful tradition, and I hope it will stay like that forever. I wonder how many of us know the history of Thanksgiving. Here is the link you can read all about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)
While we are celebrating Thanksgiving with our love ones, let's not forget there are so many people who doesn't have family and friends who love and care about them. Let’s not forget to include them. And there are also many people who have family and friends but for some reason they can’t be with them. Let’s include them, too, and make them feel part of your family. It may not mean a lot to you, but I know it will mean a whole lot to them. I am one of those who will be alone this thanksgiving not because I don’t have family or friends; no, I am pretty rich in that area. For some personal reasons my girls and I cannot be together on this year’s Thanksgiving. Look how blessed I am: Six different of my beautiful, loving, caring, sweet friends have invited me into their homes with their families to celebrate Thanksgiving with them. It means so much to me. And you know who you are. On this Thanksgiving, I thank you from bottom of my heart and am truly thankful for your friendship. People like you make this world more beautiful.
I absolutely love everything about Thanksgiving but I wish instead of family and friends meeting once a year, we could make time to meet often and be thankful everyday, not just once a year.
If you are one of those people who feel like nothing is working toward you and you have nothing to be thankful for, please take a moment and look around you again.
There is always, always, always something to be thankful for. :-)
