Another year, another time for Thanksgiving….
I don’t agree with what the history books like to portray as the first Thanksgiving, with Pilgrims in drawings, wearing clothing usually from the wrong time period, usually right next to Native Americans sometimes dressed in styles of multiple tribes…it seems that the pictures and books are never really researched or they would know that the fairytale of the first Thanksgiving is not at all what happened in reality. Despite, all of the misconceptions surrounding the holiday I do still love to celebrate it and it makes me sad that it gets passed over for the money maker holidays of Halloween and Christmas.
I think I like Thanksgiving so much because it is a good reminder to simply be Thankful instead of worrying about what you don’t have or what isn’t going the way you wanted….simply saying Thank You for what is going right and the people you have to love and the blessings that have come your way. For at least one day to just appreciate everything that you have not not worry about anything that you don’t have or haven’t accomplished. I love that there is a day devoted to appreciating what we have in a society that has become so set on concentrating on what we don’t have or what we want.
In the days of the gimme generation growing more and more throughout society, it’s nice to have a reminder go out to simply be thankful instead of insisting on having the newest game, phone, etc…. Instead of making demands for things that haven’t been earned, or even if you have worked hard for them but haven’t achieved them yet….It’s nice to just take a moment and realize that you do have many blessings.