Thankgiving

I'm in a bit of a rush tonight, since I spent most of the evening trying to study and didn't really give much thought to tonight's post. I thought I might say something about thanksgiving. For most of my life, thanksgiving really didn't show up on the radar for me since my family, for better or worse, didn't celebrate it in any significant way. This wasn't because my folks arent grateful for the freedoms that living in the U.S. affords us. Its more of an irrational relic of an overly religious mindset that ignores the possibility of there being any justification for recognizing a holiday that isnt expressly sanctioned in the bible. So while friends of mine would get together with family and friends to watch or even play some football before tucking into a hearty turkey dinner, my family would almost actively make a point of deliberately not taking part in the national festivities. We would generally order pizza for dinner, and on the occasions when I'd ask my mom if she could prepare turkey, she would insist that there was no reason to have turkey tonight, since we could have it any other day. Eventually, this attitude just became another lever pushing me further away from the increasingly incomprehensible religious ideals of my family and the community in which I grew up.