Thanksgiving, the one day a year
you can pretend to be thankful for what should be thankful for, the important things in your
life. Only 24 hours you have to pretend that you’re thankful for what and who
you have. Then at the start of the next day you can go back to being thankful
for what you are truly thankful for… yourself and inanimate objects. People
wait in lines on the evening of Thanksgiving still filled with the joy of
family and loved ones but once the clock strikes midnight and it is no longer
the last Thursday in November people get to be their real selves. Running,
shoving and trampling others to hopefully get an HD television, sure there
are people who are buying things for others for the upcoming holiday but let’s
be real. You aren’t going out to buy little Jimmy a 60” HD television; you’re
doing it for yourself.
In recent years however you can’t even
get a whole 24 hours to be thankful for family because now stores open even
earlier. Some stores opening at 9pm on Thanksgiving, now giving families only
21 hours to be thankful for each other and leaving the other 8,739 hours of the
year to care about yourself and worthless items. Let’s just eliminate the whole
day of Thanksgiving and make it all about material things, the truly important
things in life.
