Keep Thanksgiving spirit all weekend
Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the following year. The irony is that this day of feeling blessed is followed by Black Friday where people rush in stores, fighting over materialistic items and disregarding their appreciation for what they have.
In 2014 of Black Friday, I was browsing through clothes when I encountered a cute outfit. The lines were very long to buy an outfit, so I asked my brother who was standing in line to buy them for me with his item. A lady in line behind us was enraged and started yelling and arguing, asking me to wait separately at the end of the line.
Black Friday makes people more ungrateful for what they have and create a desire for wanting more. Usually customers camp outside in front of the stores and wait for the store to open so they can get as much stuff as possible for a lesser price.
Instead of going out at night and running people down or fighting over the last TV left on the shelf, it's better to gather family, friends and make it day two of thanksgiving. Spend time with friends because day one is often spent with family.
After all, Thanksgiving means being appreciative of all that you have and being grateful for those, who made life better with their presence. Those who are related by blood but bonded through love and those who are just related by their choice of being in your life.
This Thanksgiving should be dedicated to friends and family, not fighting with random stranger.
Fatima Anwar
Glendale Heights