Thank You for that Turkey we Missed on 2014

                                                                         

On Thanksgiving as a National Holiday many of us stop to feel thankful not for what we have got but for what we have been able to avoid. For luck or effort no matter how bad we are now we know that it can get worse. If you are missing a limb, a car, a house, a home it could be worse because at least we are aware of our surroundings. You are missing one limb when you could be missing all of them. You are missing a home but you are somewhere able to read this message. For those that will never read this message, those we can only wish a time in which things are as well as they can be. 

I don’t want to wish the blanket happy thanksgiving because for many there will be no happy time this Thanksgiving Day and for others there will not be a day period.  So for us that are to understand that we are stopping to say, “  am thankful for being here not in a worse way that I could have gotten.”

We could say we are thankful for all the stuff we have accumulated but that leaves out a lot of people and a lot of the things we could have gotten that we would have wish we never have received.

So for the troubled we avoided, the speeding ticket we did not get for rushing to get a bird for dinner. For the lives we did not take as we took that turn a little too close and almost hit the white van full of kids on the way to Thanksgiving dinner, we are grateful.

In this nuclear age there are so many things that can go wrong and they usually do, we are Thankfull those things did not happened and the ones that happened did not keep us from saying “I am grateful” because to be grateful is one of the beauties of the human experience. Yes there is love, adventure, drama and other things  but to be grateful implies we are not selfish because to be selfish is one of the worse conditions a human being can experience.

My wishes are for as many of us as possible to have some quiet time to think that it could have been worse. You believe me it will inspire a sense of peace and giving. It wont be on the turkey or the family, even though those are worthwhile symbols but not as important as taking notice of who we are and where we are because come the day after Thanksgiving we don’t know where we are going to be. So lets be thankful and hopeful that we will be in a better place tomorrow that we are today.

Adam Gonzalez