In this season of tradition, people are thinking of giving and receiving. It seems the season for being thankful has past. I wonder, though, shouldn't being thankful be everyday and not just on one single day?
I look at my life as of right now and I think that I have so much to be thankful for. I have a job, a lovely wife, a working car, nice clothes, cozy apartment to live in, DSL, Battle star Galactica Season 1, etc. Ok… I’m being flippant about the DSL and Battlestar Galactica DVD bit.
I could not allow myself to simply being thankful one day in a year. I think that one should always reflect on the many things they could take for granted. In some countries men don't have jobs. When they do try to find jobs, they are killed in the name of some extremist religion/sectarian movement. In some countries, people and children go without food for hours, days, weeks, months. In some countries, a child can't play in a field for fear that he or she might step on a mine from a previous military conflict. In some countries, men and women work each day with out pay because of political elements and unstable government entities.
I refuse to live in a life of complacency, in which, I take the things in my life for granted. I live my life each day as if what I have can be easily taken away. I can not petition the people in the world to live such a life, because to those people live in a Darwinism-driven society: “survival of the fittest.”
To my reader(s), always be thankful for what you have, because you are not permanently entitled to the things of the world and the people that you hold dear.
My blunt warning: Traditions don't make people more thankful, they simply remind people that being thankful is something to do a designated day, only to be ignored the following day without any further contemplation.
Captain O.
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