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Thanksgiving!

It’s thanksgiving, this is my twentieth year, and I am pondering rather sort of reflecting. We didn’t have this tradition of “thanksgiving” when I was growing up in India. I am not a religious person; I don’t celebrate festivals, religious holidays but this is one holiday we do celebrate.

There is so much to be thankful for and I am glad that we have allocated a separate day just to do that, just like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Agreed you couldn’t celebrate a “mother “or a” father” in a day but we try to thank them at least on those special days.

 We get busy in the routine, take so much for granted and then forget to be grateful for simple things that we take for granted ( I myself am guilty as charged ),not for just a roof over our heads and food on the table but for things such as freedom that many don’t have , 24/7 water or electricity, or the ability to see, walk, to go on Facebook and write what you want for that matter …just consider this my ramblings part whatever …take time to appreciate someone or something on this thanksgiving holiday.

 I am thankful for my husband, my loving family for their unconditional love, my friends (near, far, virtual) who listen to my ramblings, friends who take time out to comment on my photography, friends who come to my rescue and offer my children rides when I am in a crunch, for my neighbors, for the wonderful schools that my children attend, for their teachers, and above all the “Profession” that brought me here and has given me the “Freedom”. My ramblings on this Thanksgiving Day!

 



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