Thoughtful Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving bloggers! I hope
each and every one of your thanksgivings were wonderful, and that these breaks
gave you time to reflect and spend quality time with friends and family. I wanted
to start this week’s blog post by reintroducing the idea of thanksgiving and
understanding its value and importance.
Thanksgiving can be defined as a holiday
for people to be thankful for what they have. Other definitions state that
thanksgiving is a prayer that expresses thanks to God. I would define
thanksgiving as a time of focus and reflection on what means the most to a
person and what they are thankful for and appreciate, but I think the real meaning
of thanksgiving goes even deeper than that. Thanksgiving inspires people.
Thanksgiving inspires people to take
action. This is where we find thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness can be defined
as consideration for someone else’s needs, it is going out of one’s own
convenience to attend to the wants and needs of another. Thoughtfulness is when you take that
time of reflection for who and what you are thankful for, and you put those thoughts
into action to show those people how much you mean to
them.
I am thankful for so many things in my
life. I have been blessed with a wonderful family, an amazing support system
from previous teachers and member of my church, many wonderful friends from
home, and many friends from college who, in such a short amount of time, have
become some of the most important people in my life.
With so many people in my life to be
thankful for, I cannot stand by without caring for them and showing them just how
much I appreciate them. I can do this by demonstrating thoughtfulness in my
daily routine in extravagant ways and in the little things.
Regardless of how you go about being thoughtful towards those you are thankful
for, the appreciation and value you hold for them will be evident.
Before I introduce this week’s poem I’d
like to shoutout a friend of mine, Devin Huisenga. She also has a blog and her
most recent post explains some of her close friendships and the experiences and
relationships she has with the people closest with her. These are the type of
relationships that require investment, appreciation, thankfulness, and
thoughtfulness.
This weeks poem is entitled “Arbitrary”.
love is fickle
believe these words
one loves another
till they lose their worth
love is blind
but this vision is clear
unreciprocated love
is a lovers biggest fear
love is careful
it is ever questioning
unless a lover wanders
affection will keep from lessening
love is fickle
I could never deny
love is blind
but not from my eyes
love is careful
when taught to restrain
love is something I can never claim
