So Much to be Thankful For!
19/11/20 13:17 Filed in:
CommunityThis year has been anything but ordinary. Somehow the days, weeks, and months have continued on, and we find ourselves already at Thanksgiving as the year is starting to wrap up. Where has the time gone?
We’ve been taught since a young age that around this time we must reflect on things we have to be thankful for, and although that is not always easy when times are tough, it can make you realize how much you really do have. Life may not be going exactly how you imagined it – maybe you lost your job, got sick, or heard devastating news recently. I’m not here to tell you that you need to change how you currently feel, because that wouldn’t be very empathetic or caring. But what I do want to stress is that there are always things to be thankful for, even when it doesn’t seem like it. For example, we take shelter for granted more often than not, and the reality is that millions of people around the world do not have a place to stay every night. The same can be said about food, clean water, transportation, and the list goes on. The issue isn’t that our lives have less hardships, it’s that we can’t always see how much we truly have because of the hardships.
This Thanksgiving, I encourage you to make time and think of the little things in your life that you take for granted. Don’t let your thankfulness become passive, live it out. If someone brings a Thanksgiving dish, be sure to let them know how much you appreciate the time they took to prepare it. When the heater clicks on, remember that you live in a building that keeps you warm. If you’re younger brother burps obnoxiously at the dinner table, be glad he is in your life in that very moment. In the end, there will always be difficult things going on in your life, but you will forever have more than you know to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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