Favorite Holiday

Thanksgiving is by far the greatest of all the holidays. It's the least tainted of all the holidays and has an absolute purity that you can't just escape. Plus... what's better than a holiday where all you have to do is eat?! (and eat and eat and eat and eat). Society and commercialism have pretty much ruined all the other holidays with all their "buy me" crap. Sure you get some of that stuff for Thanksgiving, but it's really just sales on food. FOOD!!! Good food too! Turkey, bread rolls, mashed potatoes... MASHED POTATOES! (and gravy) and corn and .... *droooooool. I love it. Spending time with family and laughing and goofing off. Growing up I was always happy for this holiday. I've never really had the Christmas bug . My sisters do, my mom does... my dad... holy crap. My dad always bought more decorations after Christmas was over, for next year. The only job I ever had to do was put lights up on the house. Not too bad cause I got to climb up on the roof. But if there was one rule my family had, it was no Christmas till AFTER Thanksgiving. Well... I guess that was more my rule than anything else. No Christmas music or anything Christmas till after midnight. If there's one thing I miss it's that my WHOLE family isn't here. My awesome sister Susi and her awesome fiance(my awesome future brother in law) aren't here. When my parents, and both my sister's are here and me... I guarantee you wouldn't be able to make it through even 10 minutes of dinner without laughing. The one liner jokes, the inside jokes, the crazy humor, the ridiculousness, the childish behavior. I love it all.

Unless some form of presents or gifts suddenly became synonymous with Thanksgiving, there's no way that this holiday could be ruined and tainted by commercialism. I find it so awesome that there aren't even any major films and cartoons about this holiday as there are for Christmas. Ya ya ya, there's a few... but I don't count the snoopy cartoons. Still though. It's an awesome holiday. So what if it traces back to some crappy historical moment where we ripped off some half naked people, right now... what it means today... to me... is friggin' awesome.

I could start listing, like everyone else has, the things I'm thankful for. But really where would I start? Family, friends, religious beliefs, opportunities, skills, health... the list could go on forever. Just looking around my room I can think of a few things... The Muppets, Mel Brooks, Nintendo, Cartoons. But really... what it comes down to... what I'm most grateful to have...

Love

Corny and cheesy. But really. Let's be honest here, I know I am. Love in all aspects of the word. It really encompasses everything when you think about it. The capacity to feel it, even just a little bit so that it's just a "like" feeling, all the way to the more intense feeling that you still hold on to for one that has passed on. Being able to feel that, and/or remember how it felt to have it or give it... JUST being ABLE TO. That's an amazing gift. Without being able to feel love you couldn't do ANYTHING. Think about it. The passion that drives you, having friends, doing things, maybe it's not LOVE per-say, maybe it's a dumbed down version of it where it's just a "like" feeling... but it's still there.
So, what am I thankful for? I'm thankful for being able to feel love. To know what it feels like from family, from friends, and what it felt like to have it in a relationship. Because without being able to feel that feeling, or enjoy that feeling, I would never have the passion, the drive, the family, the friends, or anything that keeps me going each day.
I promised myself I wouldn't do this... *sniff sniff*... hahahahaha.

I can't wait to eat... Enjoy your amazing day my friends... live it and love it. You only got one life... unless you believe in reincarnation then you have a lot of them, but you won't remember this one, so enjoy it like it's the only one you got, jerk.


*note
I think it sucks that the spellchecker will underline christmas because it isn't capitalized but thanksgiving is fine like that. Screw you spellchecker. It's Thanksgiving, not thanksgiving.