I cannot wait to go home and enjoy a nice home cooked meal. Thanksgiving is my time of the year! It is one of the most underrated holidays of the year, especially with all of the Black Friday commercials. I live for this festive event because nothing says life is good better than having a table filled with a wide variety of Thanksgiving dishes, along with some traditional family dishes. College is great, but the food will never come close to what is waiting for me on Thanksgiving Day. However, it makes me ask the question, "Why does Thanksgiving not get credit it deserves?"
I love my family very much and being away from home to go to school only makes me appreciate them even more. It is sad that as a nation it’s like everyone is more focused on getting a good shopping deal than actually spending time with their loved ones. Don’t get me wrong, good deals are always awesome! I live for Cyber Monday, but is it right that lines start before most families sit down for their Thanksgiving meals? Also most Black Friday commercials start the week of Halloween.
Why are deals that important? I get hyped when I can get a ton of stuff for a low price and save money, but food is where most of my money goes so I guess that’s why I never cared for going Black Friday shopping. I know people can argue that they would go Black Friday shopping with family members and still get the quality family time. Just like Thanksgiving dinner. My only argument with that is why is it so important to go out and wait in line outside a Wal-Mart for at least 5 hours? Especially if you live in a state that has bad weather then you will be freezing for that time.
To me, Thanksgiving and Black Friday are complete opposites in meaning. Thanksgiving is more geared to old fashion tradition, as in we just do it, but don’t question it. While Black Friday is slowly becoming a tradition, but is still powered by advertisements. Thanksgiving has a background history dating back to the Pilgrims and Native Americans where both sides celebrated their harvest by eating food. Now, this holiday is a really big family meal that extends to relatives and close friends. As an American, it is a holiday based on tradition. Your parents celebrated Thanksgiving, just like their parents, and when you have a family you will do the same thing. Black Friday on the other hand is an effective sales promotion that gets people ready, prepared, and focused on all major deals going on. Major retail businesses heavily promote what they will have on sale on all major media outlets throughout November, so by Midnight on Black Friday the doors will open and thousands of people nationwide will swarm into stores.
At the end of the day everyone will be getting ready for Black Friday. There is no doubt in my mind about and I will be just chilling on my couch eating pie, watching football.
