Thanksgiving: Why Is It Important To Be Thankful?

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“If you’re grateful for everything, then whatever you have is enough.” This is a quote said by J. Baadsgaard. Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful. I’m thankful for many things this holiday season. This year I’m just thankful for the simple things in life, I mean there’s no reason not be. The simple things in your life may be the huge ones in others. Always remember that your life is someone else’s fantasy, no matter how bad it is.
I’m thankful for being alive, I didn’t encounter a near life death experience, but I’m alive and glad to be. If simply being alive isn’t something to be thankful for, then I don’t know what is. “On Earth there is no heaven, but there is pieces of it,” as said by Jules Renard. Being alive to enjoy the Earth’s beauty,
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I’m thankful that I have access to clean drinking water. 663 million people lack access to safe water. I’m thankful that I don’t have to live in poverty, that I have a family, I’m thankful that I don’t starve every day. Millions and millions of people out there live lives like these. I’ll never know what they’ve been through, what they’ve felt, the experiences they’ve had and I would say that I’m lucky because of that. The truth is it’s not luck, people make this happen. My parents make sure I have clothes, food, and a roof over my head. I could never be thankful enough for …show more content…
I’m thankful for the things I don’t know, so I can learn them. I’m thankful for the times in which I grow as a person. I’m thankful for the mistakes I have made because of the lessons they have taught me.
I’m thankful for the experiences that I haven’t had, good or bad. For I can either enjoy or learn from them. Its 2015, so I’m obviously thankful for technology. It has brought upon change on the world, revolutionizing it. For the better or worse, I believe it really started out as something great and now it’s just consuming our society. It still continues to revolutionize and make advancements, if used properly it can be something quite incredible.
I’m thankful for my current teachers. For everything they do, on a daily basis. No one acknowledges what they do and if they do it comes once a year during teacher appreciation week. Even then teachers still aren’t acknowledged enough, especially mine. They change the world one child at a time. Thank a teacher if you can read this, they taught you how to. To everyone else they may be just a teacher, but to me their heroes, not all heroes wear

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