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Thankfulness
By Naiesha Thobe, Teen Scribe
First off, let me say sorry for the sudden vanishing of me and my
writing. I'll write up a blog soon and explain everything.
Second off, happy Thanksgiving.
What are you thankful for?
I started listing things that I was thankful for and realized, a few
items through, that I'm thankful for a lot of otherwise immaterial
things. Maybe that makes me a bad person. I'd like to think not,
though. I just have very strange priorities.
I'm thankful for my family. I appreciate everything that my parents
have done for me, even when I've been irrationally stupid and ask for
the near-impossible. They tolerate my (intelligent) idiocy, and that's
a feat in itself.
I'm thankful for my friends. I'm not going to pretend that I haven't
had friend problems, because I have. Everyone does. Some people that
were really special to me, no longer talk to me. But I'm still thankful
for them. They helped me grow. They were a part of my life that
couldn't be replaced.
And then there's the friends that are there for me whenever I need
them, also looking over my (intelligent) idiocy. (There is a meaning to
my madness- I assure you- thus the 'intelligent idiocy'. Haha) The fact
that they put up my random obsessions and awkwardness is just brilliant.
I'm thankful for the Brits. If you read my blog, you know I'm a big
Britain at heart, and what would I do without my tea and the BBC? And
who else would I credit my Banoffee pie that I've made for Thanksgiving
to? (Not taste-tested yet, so I'll let you know if it's delicious or
not.)
Really, I'm thankful for cross-country things. Where else would we get
un-Americanized things like pizza or a telephone booth? It's just nice
to think that so many references can stretch so far across the world.
It's nice to have that little piece of a different country, a little
piece of the foreign world around us right under our noses.
I'm thankful for, and feel free to laugh at me, Mr. Benedict
Cumberbatch. You're thinking 'who'? Not many people know of him, and he
doesn't know of me. (He's a British actor, fyi.) The whole concept
might seem bizarre, but Mr. Cumberbatch has gotten me through some
unhappy days. I can be having the worst day ever, and my go-to will be
Benedict. And his acting or just his generalized humble self makes me
smile. I think it's great when an actor's performance touches someone
in ways they didn't imagine, and Mr. Cumberbatch always does that for
me.
So silly. I know.
I'm thankful for books, and movies, and video games, and those sorts of
immaterial things that no one really needs, but wants. I think it's
nice that by turning a page, pushing a 'play' button, turning on a
console, and etcetera, can take us all to a different world of
time-travel or crime-solving, of saving the world or sailing the seven
seas. I'm grateful to those sorts of things... but, then again, I am a
writer.
I'm thankful for all the small things.
At least, I'm trying to be. I know there's still countless things that
I overlook. We all overlook the little things in our everyday, bustling
lives. But the flowers on the roadside, the wildlife, having
conveniences like grocery stores or fast food, blankets, clothes,
parties, and our freedom- that's what Thanksgiving is about. Being
thankful for all the small things, as well as the big things. Being
thankful for everything.
So, yes, looking back, my thankfulness list might seem like it includes
very immaterial things. But, I'm genuinely grateful for each and every
one of these things, and even more things that I haven't named.
Happy Thanksgiving, readers. Hopefully your day is filled with family
and friends, fun and food. Being thankful for it all.
Thanks for reading.
(I never say it, but I'm always gracious to each and every one of my
followers. Very, very grateful.)
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