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Thanks,
littlereddragkin
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving. It comes every year on the last Thursday in November. Thanksgiving is the one day a year that we set aside to give thanks to God, our family, friends, and the cashier-guy at Wal-Mart…for everything. While this year is really no different than last year was, or the year before that, I would like to take some time to discuss what it means to be "thankful" by looking at the definition and applying it to our lives.
First of all, according to The Random House College Dictionary, "thankful" is an adjective, which means "feeling or expressing gratitude or appreciation." Some synonyms for "thankful" are grateful, appreciative, pleased, and gratified. Now that we have covered the definition of "thankful" and its synonyms, let's try to apply it.
When you receive something, you generally say "thank you," even if you don't like the gift, right? Or you say, "Thanks" if someone does something for you. We do that just to be polite, sometimes we don't even mean it. Many people think other people are ungrateful for things done or received. We get this impression because the person who received the gift doesn't respond with some sort of reply that expresses thankfulness.
We need to get into the habit of giving thanks to everyone—especially God. Without God, no one would be alive today. God gives us the biggest, most invaluable gift ever and we are too rude to even thank Him. I'm not saying we need to go down Wall Street with a big cheesy grin on our faces and act like idiots in thanking everyone we see. No, we need to start expressing our thanks to people who deserve it from us, i.e. your mom and dad, sisters or brothers, anybody and everybody who gets or does something for you, even if they do it grudgingly. We also need to be sincere as possible when we give our thanks, or, in my opinion, the thanks the person just said is just a jumble of syllables and sounds.
In conclusion, people need to be more expressive and sincere in their thanks. They also need to be giving. Many people have gotten into the habit of not being thankful and, in doing so, take away the giver's pleasure. So, the next time Aunt Polly gives you one of her hideous sweaters, tell her you appreciate the gift as sincerely as you can and maybe, gently, tell her that you don't really care for the sweater itself, but that it's the thought that counts.
Hope you enjoyed reading this! And remember the three 'Rs'!