Thanksgiving was yesterday! Whoopdy Freakin dooo! I don't really understand this holiday. I guess it is supposed to be a day when we all go around and give thanks for what we have, or are, or something. I remember years ago in church when we would send a wicker basket around and drop corn in it (symbolizing the feast that the pigrims had with the Indians I guess) and say something we were thankful for. I hated that crap! It was so affected and forced that nobody ever said they were thankful for anything except for their family, friends, pets, or video games in reverse order of importants probably.
But now that we are older it is just an excuse for us to stuff our faces with really really good food, at least at my house. I tried to think of something possitive that could justify this thanksgiving but despite my efforts I came up with nothing. I think this Holiday is horse-shit for at least a few reasons:
1) I find it ironic that we celebrate this day in honor of the pilgrims landing in America and befriending the Indians. We gave thanks for our friendship with them, then only a few years later we stole their land and tried to kill them all. Thanks Indeed!
2) I think it despicable that we have to have a reason to get together and commune with our families. We don't ever just get together and enjoy each other for the sheer fact that we are family/friends. We have to have a government sanctioned holiday that wouldn't be complete without some sort of monetary spending.
3) This is my personal reason. Have you ever tried to have a holiday with a family that has suffered from divorce at every familial corner. It is especially bad being the child because it is almost impossible to make everone happy. Mom wants you one place (except this year mom decided to go out of town without telling me, so I spent this year with no immediate family. Aren't I such a martyr?) , dad wants you another, step-whatever another, and on and on. I almost said screw it this year and went to some friends for a drinking binge. I'm extremely jealous of all of you that have functional families out there. It is a blessing that I feel extremely cheated out of.
I think I would have been much more thankful this year if I could have just had a joint (legal of course) and a good bear or six. Fuck this Holiday, I'm looking forward to Christmas where at least I will have some material stuff to make me feel better.
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