This Thanksgiving Day I'm Thankful
Nov. 26th, 2009 03:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamweaverBefore I call it quits for the night:
I don't usually wax maudlin, or do the sentimental thing on the Holidays. But I got to thinking about the way things are right now. And you know what? I felt a welling up of gratitude and thankfulness for the people and things in my life.
I'm truly Thankful for a lot of things:
I'm thankful that the members of my family still have jobs. Many, many people don't. And many more people may become unemployed in the coming year. I'm thankful that we're all relatively healthy, with no chronic illnesses.
I'm thankful I still have a roof over my head. A great many people, here in the US, not in some far off foreign country overseas, don't
I'm thankful that although money is tight, I still have groceries in the pantry. A lot of people in this country don't have anything to eat, or enough to eat. I may not always eat what I want when I want it. 'Cause if I did, I'd eat steak all the time, LOL. But I have sufficient for my family. And we are 6 in number with one on the way.
I'm thankful for the internet:
When I was a kid we had the local TV stations, the newspaper, and radio. Then, the year I graduated high school cable was in it's infancy, and catching on fast. HBO was the hottest new thing. I am so grateful that now I can sit down at my computer and fire it up and get near instantaneous news from around the globe. It's still a wonder to me. I don't take it for granted because I didn't grow up with the internet always around like most of the kids today.
I'm grateful for MP3 players:
Man while I was growing up we had radio and vinyl. That was it. Then 8 tracks came along. 8 or 10 songs on a cassette type deal about the size and thickness of a paperback book. Then cassettes came along, Then CDs, now we can carry a whole collection of albums, and pictures, and movies on a little tiny device that fits in your hand! You guys that grew up with this stuff just don't know how amazing that really is.
I'm thankful for IMs, and journals, and blogs, and social media period: Anyone who wants to can communicate almost instantly without waiting a week for a letter or being tied to a land line at home waiting on a call. It's absolutely amazing to me the multitude and varieties of ways people can communicate now. There again, when I was a kid we had phones, and letters (snail mail), and smoke signals. *Snerk* I'm 46 YO and all this stuff didn't start cropping up until I was in my 30s. Now, we have: cell phones, texting, IM, VOIP, Twitter, journals, blogs, email, Google WAVE ;>, and you can even see who you're talking to with a web cam! It's still a seven year wonder to me.
So I'm extra thankful this year. I don't want to bore you to death, I've listed just the highlights.
Am I ignoring all the bad things going on? No, I realize and acknowledge that there are still terrible things going on in the economy, and the environment, and in a million other areas. But for today, even though my life is far from perfect, I'm taking the time to be thankful for the things I do have, the GOOD things in my life. As busy as everyday life gets, and amidst all the stories of the wrongness of things, I don't always stop to think about the things I do have that are good.
So, from my family to yours may you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
I don't usually wax maudlin, or do the sentimental thing on the Holidays. But I got to thinking about the way things are right now. And you know what? I felt a welling up of gratitude and thankfulness for the people and things in my life.
I'm truly Thankful for a lot of things:
I'm thankful that the members of my family still have jobs. Many, many people don't. And many more people may become unemployed in the coming year. I'm thankful that we're all relatively healthy, with no chronic illnesses.
I'm thankful I still have a roof over my head. A great many people, here in the US, not in some far off foreign country overseas, don't
I'm thankful that although money is tight, I still have groceries in the pantry. A lot of people in this country don't have anything to eat, or enough to eat. I may not always eat what I want when I want it. 'Cause if I did, I'd eat steak all the time, LOL. But I have sufficient for my family. And we are 6 in number with one on the way.
I'm thankful for the internet:
When I was a kid we had the local TV stations, the newspaper, and radio. Then, the year I graduated high school cable was in it's infancy, and catching on fast. HBO was the hottest new thing. I am so grateful that now I can sit down at my computer and fire it up and get near instantaneous news from around the globe. It's still a wonder to me. I don't take it for granted because I didn't grow up with the internet always around like most of the kids today.
I'm grateful for MP3 players:
Man while I was growing up we had radio and vinyl. That was it. Then 8 tracks came along. 8 or 10 songs on a cassette type deal about the size and thickness of a paperback book. Then cassettes came along, Then CDs, now we can carry a whole collection of albums, and pictures, and movies on a little tiny device that fits in your hand! You guys that grew up with this stuff just don't know how amazing that really is.
I'm thankful for IMs, and journals, and blogs, and social media period: Anyone who wants to can communicate almost instantly without waiting a week for a letter or being tied to a land line at home waiting on a call. It's absolutely amazing to me the multitude and varieties of ways people can communicate now. There again, when I was a kid we had phones, and letters (snail mail), and smoke signals. *Snerk* I'm 46 YO and all this stuff didn't start cropping up until I was in my 30s. Now, we have: cell phones, texting, IM, VOIP, Twitter, journals, blogs, email, Google WAVE ;>, and you can even see who you're talking to with a web cam! It's still a seven year wonder to me.
So I'm extra thankful this year. I don't want to bore you to death, I've listed just the highlights.
Am I ignoring all the bad things going on? No, I realize and acknowledge that there are still terrible things going on in the economy, and the environment, and in a million other areas. But for today, even though my life is far from perfect, I'm taking the time to be thankful for the things I do have, the GOOD things in my life. As busy as everyday life gets, and amidst all the stories of the wrongness of things, I don't always stop to think about the things I do have that are good.
So, from my family to yours may you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
