Friday, November 21, 2014

The Truly Important Things in Life


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.

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