Thanksgiving
Nov. 25th, 2005 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraig[I would have posted this yesterday, except when I got home, my Internet connection was out. Again. Time-Warner tend to drop the ball a lot in that department.]
The past year hasn't given as much as it usually does to be thankful for, to be frank. Yet despite -- or perhaps because of it -- I'm not going to write up the Year of Hell as, well, Hell on Earth; I don't look back with particular joy on it, but it does bring home certain truths. It's nothing so heartless as 'these things happen,' though they do. For whatever reason, we only have a limited time in this world, and there's precious little we can do to extend that time.
So I'm thankful that I had as much time as I did with my parents, and thankful that they did all that they could to prepare me and my brother for when they would no longer be here.
I'm thankful for a pack of friends and relatives who care, on the Internet and off, who are some of the most heartful people I have ever known.
I'm thankful for this chance, after so many years, to work and earn my way, and in a work environment that's probably the best I have ever found myself in.
I'm thankful that, sometimes, even little injustices are called into account, and even some of the most powerful and above-the-law... really aren't. I don't have to write off the human race as a lost cause just yet.
So Happy Belated Thanksgiving, all; yes, even you guys in other countries. You might not be celebrating it, but just wanted to say 'thanks' to you all the same. ^^
More later. Fictionbrewing, work percolating, and a cold developing. Pax.
The past year hasn't given as much as it usually does to be thankful for, to be frank. Yet despite -- or perhaps because of it -- I'm not going to write up the Year of Hell as, well, Hell on Earth; I don't look back with particular joy on it, but it does bring home certain truths. It's nothing so heartless as 'these things happen,' though they do. For whatever reason, we only have a limited time in this world, and there's precious little we can do to extend that time.
So I'm thankful that I had as much time as I did with my parents, and thankful that they did all that they could to prepare me and my brother for when they would no longer be here.
I'm thankful for a pack of friends and relatives who care, on the Internet and off, who are some of the most heartful people I have ever known.
I'm thankful for this chance, after so many years, to work and earn my way, and in a work environment that's probably the best I have ever found myself in.
I'm thankful that, sometimes, even little injustices are called into account, and even some of the most powerful and above-the-law... really aren't. I don't have to write off the human race as a lost cause just yet.
So Happy Belated Thanksgiving, all; yes, even you guys in other countries. You might not be celebrating it, but just wanted to say 'thanks' to you all the same. ^^
More later. Fictionbrewing, work percolating, and a cold developing. Pax.
