Giving Thanks For What's Important

Well, the day that we have all been waiting to arrive for years is upon us. Thanksgiving.

Now, the idea behind the Thanksgiving holiday is straightforward: You eat as much as you can, while giving thanks that you have the money to afford such an unconventional meal while people around the world would kill to have a fraction of the stuffing off of your plate. And then you can live the rest of your year not thanking people for anything.

This raises the question though: what exactly are we supposed to be thankful for? That we have everything we have? That we're still alive? That our cat got better at grooming himself and no longer has a disgusting back? Everyone has something different.

I think that people's
Thanksgiving thanks is a good
Measure of real age


For instance, if someone says that they're thankful for having their whole family alive and well, that their grandmother lived another year, or that they have enough support to stay at college- you can guess that they're mature and/or down-to-Earth. However, if they say that they're thankful for their 60-inch plasma TV, that they still have a lease on their Mercedes, or that they got what they wanted for their birthday- chances are they are five and/or have yet to realize what's important in life. And sometimes, a five-year-old might have more insight into this than a full-grown man.