I am posting this on Thanksgiving Day. It is easy to lose track of all that we have to be thankful for, but our abundance is overwhelming. It reminds me also of my post from July 13, 2013, in which I noted that there are two types of people:
1. Those who are thankful for all that they have, regardless of how little "all" may be.
2. Those who are unhappy because of what they don't have, regardless of how much they do have.
At the time I wrote, "Most of us know which is our own predominant 'type'" but I am not so sure about that. I suspect the thankful know themselves, but the others may not recognize themselves for what they are.
Click to read about the first Thanksgiving which was celebrated by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower.
I am a Mayflower Descendent, from Richard Warren. My maternal grandmother did a lot of genealogy research in the 1950's and 1960's to complete an extensive family tree. But, The Mayflower Society notes on their website that "Today, tens of millions of Americans have at least one ancestor who was among this group of early settlers." Thus, being a "Mayflower Descendent" is not really such a big deal.
CLICK HERE to read about Richard Warren from Wikipedia
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