As we approach Thanksgiving next week, it's time to reflect on what is really important in our lives. We'll most likely sit around the table on Thanksgiving with family and/or friends and probably answer the question, "For what are you thankful?" will your answer, be, however, one of these three: goodness, happiness or success? And, will you be able to describe your choice so that others may learn from you? I'm curious - what will you answer?
"Happy Thanksgiving!"
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I'm thankful for alot of things. To be honest, I'm thankful for my whole life. I'm thankful, for my house, my money, my things that can be bought. I'm thankful for it all. More importantly i'm thankful for the things, i cant buy or ever have back. I'm thankful for my friends, my family, everyone important in my life. Without them life wouldn't mean as much as it does to me
I will probably say i am thankful for goodness, happiness, and success, especially after my 1st marking period here @ Bergen with good grades. It's nice to get the family together.
If you ask me, though, i'm just waiting for Christmas to come round. Hooray for the most important Christian holiday, and hooray for the two-week vacation! Plus, i get to see more family during this time anyway.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and i would like to share with this blog some time honored traditions at the Marcus house: Thanksgiving Eve the celebration begins with a tall glass of the finest coca cola I can afford, a sampling of sitcom thanksgiving episode classics (that 70's show is my favorite!) and the greeting of friends and family in town for the occasion. Then bright and early Thanksgiving day (10am!!) all fathers and sons and boyfriends and brothers-in-law and local able bodied men meet on the 8th ave field and challenge the local kids to an all out game of tackle football, while the women stand on the sidelines with inhalers, water jugs, and wisecrack remarks- if noones in a cast by 1 pm we consider it a victory, and head home to wash up for thanksgiving dinner which starts at 2 pm sharp. We go around the table and say what we are thankful for and comment about the highlights of the game and how funny/bad everyone is- After dinner #1, we head to my wife's family down the road where another insane amount of food is just starting to be served- again we say what we are thankful for and enjoy more coca cola!!!- Finally at around 7 pm we break from meal #2 and head over to staten island to my dads house for thanksgiving dessert- to avoid exhaustion from turkey/too many hits to the head in the football game, we rock out to mr flynn and my favorite countdown- the top 104 rock songs of all time on Q104.3 (not stairway to heaven #1 again!!!)- my dad always has the greatest keylime pie (costco!) and of course more coca cola is enjoyed by all
i once made a list of my favorite things about thanksgiving and of course family was #1 and food and shelter etc- but this yr i am focusing on simply the gift of life- as hard as life can be sometimes, in america with life there is always hope and a life with hope is a life worth living- what a blessing that we can wake up everyday in a free country with "the wide open country in our eyes and these romantic dreams in (our) head(s)"- that everyday we are free to choose where we want to go and what we want to do and what we want to strive for and believe in- thats what life is to me and that is what I am most thankful for this year
5 points to anyone who knows where that quote is from!!!
I am thankful for a lot of different things this year. I am grateful my grandfather survived when it looked like he was going to die. I am thankful for him slowly coming off of hospice and I'm thankful the nursing home is letting him come to our house on Thanksgiving. I am grateful for getting the highest avg. in the grade.
I am very grateful that its a 2 day week.
I found the quote its No Retreat, No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen.
I am not trying to brag at all its just one of the many things I am thankful. Thanks for turning what was meant to be a nice little idea that I'm very thankful for. I never thought I could do anything like that and all I'm saying is that I'm very grateful. And I'd give that up any day to see my grandfather to be healthy. Its very rare for him to ever have a good day and I was just saying that I was grateful for a good grade I'm not trying to show off in any way.
Yes but you could have said you have high grades but not the highest but yes you should be thankful as am i for a good grade.
With all due respect, everyone can be thankful for what they want to be thankful for, and they can share it.
Yeah Deke!!!! take him down
I 'm sorry I said it like that I wasn't trying to offend anyone at all. I'm sorry I was just saying I was extremely grateful that I put in a lot of work and I was grateful for what I was given by God and sometimes I believe my grandmother who passed away helps me.
It's alright i love a good writing battle. You show him what you got!
And to think that our original topic was about giving thanks...
Boys! This isn't a "food fight"! No one need apologize for one's talents, nor should anyone slight anyone for sharing them - that's what this blog is all about - sharing and then more sharing, respecting each other's positions, etc. Let's give thanks for that "freedom" to speak freely about what is on our minds and know there isn't any reprisal for doing so...so, give thanks and be happy!
iLove Thanksgiving. iAlways have one night just to be thankful for all of the surrounding; qood and bad(:
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