Thanksgiving. A holiday recognized and celebrated by many. When September rolls around, people start counting down the days until their top 3 favorite holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (well, at least those are my top 3 favorite holidays. Not necessarily in that order). Thanksgiving is one day a year where you're asked to surround yourself with people you love, binge watch football games and parades on TV, and gorge yourself on yummy foods. What more could you ask for? We tend to forget just how lucky we are. We forget to be thankful for simple things, and we forget what the holiday is really all about.
Often, life gets so busy that we forget the main reason we're even celebrating- we're recognizing how blessed we are. There's things that we have everyday that we forget are luxury items- heat, air conditioning, coffee. We forget common things, too, things that seem so little to us- like clean water, sewer systems, healthcare, you name it. Then there's the stuff everyone usually names- their house, their family, their friends. It seems like these are all the things we remember to be thankful for, which is great, but don't forget all the other stuff that makes life easier to live. So, this holiday season, try to find one new thing that you're thankful for. It doesn't have to be lavish, and you don't have to announce it to anybody. All I ask is that you challenge yourself. Find one simple thing that you usually forget to be thankful for, and give thanks.
