Happy Thanksgiving

[PozBearWI]

Thanksgiving is a uniquely North American holiday.  Gratitude was to our early North American invaders a practice some of them followed; setting in motion what might be known as the American Dichotomy.  It is popular in recent years to consider that "bad".  We come from "bad" people.  Certain comedians are "bad" and unviewable because that did XYZ.  So we shut them out.  It's as if words are bullets.  They are NOT.  

Whether we are "bad" ourselves is up to us and how we behave amongst our fellows. Some of course will toss us in the "bad bucket" simply because we might be curious about barebacking.  But seriously look at your day today?  How much of it was chasing and how much of it was doing other things necessary for our survival?  

We seem to have this weird thing going on in opinions of each other that one descriptor for someone is the ENTIRE description of them.  We sort of "allify" someone.  If we're a white guy (for example) that is viewed as defining and suddenly we know everything about you.  All young guys voted a certain way, that fully defines that demographic?  Not at all!  Isn't life more about discovering ourselves?  We depend on each other for our differing abilities.  I can for example wire your house for electric safely and efficiently; but I am not good on a roof anymore.  But others are good on a roof but need an electrician.  Fire fighters of the 1800's didn't have Water Hydrants and pumper trucks.  They depended on the final guy in the bucket brigade to have the best aim.  It is our differences that benefit each other.    

Each of us, even us and our Significant Other, is not a Xerox copy other the other.  Rich and I are quite different and yet almost everyone who meets us in person asks us if we're brothers.  

We have forefathers that ultimately are common to ALL of us.  Things that retarded society came from that, and things which benefitted society also came from that.  Holding in our minds for a time these conflicting ideas from a common source.  And isn't that true within us?  Just because I regret that I did one thing doesn't mean I don't love the beneficial things I've done.  We will never perhaps be perfect.  There is a dichotomy within us, and around us.  And hopefully rather than shame, we can be grateful for that. 

When the holiday started though it was a shared Native American and Immigrant who chose, at that moment, to be commonly grateful for how they find themselves on that day.  As a holiday it is intended to be a day we reflect on whatever we can be grateful for.  (When I start to list it included many many dozens of countable things). We can make another holiday we can acknowledge regrettable stuff if we need to; and perhaps we have when we recognize the start of WW2, or perhaps Halloween.  

The ability to think and express an idea is wonderful.  For me it becomes more wonderful when it engages another here and we expand our understanding of ourselves, and the world around us.  

Again, I am so grateful you guys are here.  Peace my brothers.

 

PozBearWI