How Do We Define Thanksgiving?

If everyone we care about and everyone we love is within reach, just a phone call away or in good health then it's easy to recite a list of things we are thankful for. But how do we make sense of this holiday when we are witnessing our life slowly turn upside down? When the person we love is so far removed from us that nothing we do or say will bring them closer to us? Being far from that one person you miss so much can make Thanksgiving really suck! But my question to you is this: Who the hell said Thanksgiving has to be on the day 3rd Thursday in November? Let's think about Thanksgiving in February or March or whenever you get to be with that one person. And if being with that person is simply not possible then it is during this time that our most difficult work lays before us. In order to find something to be thankful for we must reach deep within ourselves and find the courage and bravery to find that one thing, person or reason that keeps us going.

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