Not withstanding the soiled nature of the holiday, thanks to small pox blankets and other unimaginable cruelty that goes along with the murder of en entire set of cultures and people.
I’m taking this moment to write about the things I am thankful for.
This is not an exhaustive list, but just to give some idea of what I appreciate in my life.
1. I am thankful that my parents are still alive, together, happy, healthy, and nearby. I know they love me and I they know I love them. This is hands down the one thing I am most thankful for. That I have true parents.
2. That I have a home, enough to eat and drink, clothing, safety, warmth, and shelter. This we ALL deserve. I don’t care, even the most hated among us.
3. That my health, which while less than perfect is FAR and away from truly problematic. I am aware of what I have and don’t have.
4. That my phobias while crippling can be avoided. Some people have no safe places.
5. My real friends. The people that have a vested interest in my happiness. I wish I could do more for theirs.
6. For all the little things that when you really think about it aren’t so little. My computer, my fridge, my knife, my guns, my toys, my pictures, my books, my movies, my games, my everything.
7. My options, not only do I have enough to eat and drink but I have the kinds of things I enjoy eating and drinking.
8. My freedom, I have not been randomly and wrongfully convicted as so many have. For this list I have put aside my anger, and merely note how thankful I am that this has not happened to me or anyone I care about as of this writing.
9. My solitude. I have had my own house since I was 17, and I have spent the majority of my life with roommates, this makes we appreciate having my own space.
10. I am thankful for my readers, for my ability to express myself, and for a reasonable belief that at least a few people see my work.
11. I am thankful that you have have not done the harm you could have, for you self discipline and restraint and ethics.
12. And finally, my hope for the future. Technology. I am thankful that technology is expanding, and growing more accessible by the millisecond. I am so Very thankful that I have a reasonable hope of seeing the true ascendancy and transcendencey of humanity.
If I were a religious man I would thank god for these things, and though I am a deist and believe something enforces the physical constants etc, I do not believe it hears or thinks or is a living thing. So thanking it would be pointless.
So in a way, I am thanking luck, and all of you. Any of you are capable of ruining these things, and yet for whatever reason you haven’t. Bravo, and hold on, it will soon be better for all of us.
Nice. Obviously from the heart.
Well put.
Nice. Obviously from the heart.
Well put.