This Thursday, I will be preparing my first boneless roast turkey, with mashed potatoes and vegetables, and possibly a dessert. On Black Friday I will be working from home, and the schedule should be light because of the anticipated four-day weekend most people will have.
I’m lucky to be able to sit down to a nice Thanksgiving dinner. Some people won’t be able to put as much on their tables (if they own tables). So even though I have issues that go unresolved year after year, I still count myself as being fortunate.
Even though I have not had a date in ages, I’m glad I don’t have to sit at a table and pretend to be happy when children are crying and Daddy is swinging his fists at us.
Even if nobody ever glances my way because of how I look, at least I am healthy for my age, I’m clean and have all my own teeth. Some of the most outwardly beautiful people I’ve known have died young or suffer quite a few maladies on the inside where they don’t show.
Even if people don’t think I’m any fun because I don’t drink or smoke and never touched illicit drugs, at least I can find ways to be happy without any of those things.
Even if people make fun of how I live my life, at least I can close my doors and live my own way inside my own four walls. Since I’m doing nothing wrong, it has no effect on anybody but myself.
Even if people think it’s old-fashioned to be polite and say “please” and “thank you,” at least people to whom I say them seem to appreciate the gesture.
Even when I look in the mirror and think about how I was never able to coordinate everything so that I would be perfect for just one moment in time when everybody could appreciate it, at least I know I always made the effort with what I had at the time.
Many people will be lonely over the coming holidays. Even with those they have around them. A date on the calendar doesn’t make everything right for everybody. When the feast is laid out, take a moment, and remember that the least you have may be the most others can ever wish for. And be thankful for that.
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