Sunday, November 30, 2008

thanksgiving traditions?

Thanksgiving is such a great holiday to celebrate. It is the beginning of the holiday season. It is a cheerful and grateful holiday. It really makes you think about everything you have in your life and how lucky you really are. Even if you feel like nothing went right during the year that passed, Thanksgiving Day is a day to think of the things that did go right, even if it is little things. The gathering of family is one of the best parts of it all. Everyone getting together is interesting but a lot of fun every year. Most people have annual thanksgiving traditions that are pretty standard each year. I know that our family does, we have it at my house every year and my mom cooks the whole meal and it is amazing. One of my aunts brings the appetizers and the other brings dessert. It never gets old, though. I love thanksgiving. The only dark side of it all is the day after thanksgiving, black Friday. Every year it is a very scary day to go out on, especially to go shopping. I feel as if this was probably one of the worst and busiest black Friday’s in history because of the economy, people wanted and needed the deals. There were some horrible happenings on Friday. One of the stories that I saw on the news that really disturbed me actually ended in a death. The one man was working at the Wal-Mart, opening the doors at 4am. The people at the door were so crazed that they trampled him to death. I mean were the materialistic items they ended up buying at all close to worth that man’s death? Definitely not. Sometimes it is unbelievable what this world has come to. It is so sad and unfortunate.

How was your thanksgiving? Did you go out on black Friday? Do you have any stories?

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