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Happy Thanksgiving, guys.
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Remember the reason this is a holiday.
With just a few wrong decisions in your past, or a few bad breaks, things in your life could be in a very bad place.
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* If you have a close family or a tight group of friends - that's good. Appreciate them, and you'll keep them.
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* If you have a place to keep you warm and dry - be glad. Lots of folks sleep under stars, in freezing cold ot stifling heat.
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* If you go to bed at night with a full stomach - remember that a huge portion of people on earth - mostly kids - go to bed hungry. Be glad you're not one of them.
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* If you are relatively healthy, be glad. With the luck of the draw, anyone can have a car accident, and wind up with less arms or legs, or internal problems. And lots of folks have incurable and expensive and debilitating diseases.
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* If you are not addicted to any substance, be glad that you had a reason to use your willpower to stop - or that you had enough willpower to never start.
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There will always be someone in your life who is in a worse situation than you.
Be glad for what you have, not miffed because someone has more than you.
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On Thanksgiving, it'd be a nice tradition to pick one person who is in a bad position in life, to dine with you.
Because - in ten years time - that one person could be you.

Thanks for posting.

Well stated.

May you have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Simply put, gratitude makes one happier, imho. When ya concentrate on those things that ARE workin' for ya, you realize that things arent' as bad as you've been makin' 'em out to be. Gives ya a sunnier disposition all around, & when you"re a happier person, other ppl wanna be around ya.

This time o' year, when the days are getting shorter & the nights longer, it's especially difficult to be positive, & easier to be all fulla gloom & doom. I think we really need more of these Gratefulness Days through the darker months, myself...

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