It’s a sad state of affairs when a nation has to set aside a day to be grateful. By nature we should be grateful always
We don’t say thank you anymore. Well most don’t, I actually do. No one says “you’re welcome” either.
Shop clerks tell me to have a nice day but don’t thank me for being there.
Rock stars may say thank you but they also in the same breath call me a motherrrrrfuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkker… sorta loses the gratitude.
So lets throw a holiday shall we? One that is dedicated to being thankful for what we have.
Wait.. did you forget that?
Did you think it was a holiday for eating to excess, fighting with your family, getting drunk, playing football, calling your cousin fat, gossiping that the neghbors let their lawn go, bitch that Christmas is coming, fight over who does the dishes and really only appreciate the day off of work?
You may not have a ton of dough, and really now who does. You may not have a family, but no matter what you may think or believe there are people who care about you. You can be the biggest tool on Earth and there is some weirdo that thinks youre the tops. Heck you could even be a KOL or U2 fan and people could potentially like you. If you think otherwise youre just whining for attention so snap out of your depressive bullcrap. Even Master Card is glad youre here- they need your payment.
There are those of us with not a whole lot of social grace, and I include myself by choice. Im very anti social and not a ‘party girl’ by any means. Use holidays such as this to sort of touch base with the pocket full of people we love and tell them so. I may not be with them, but my heart is, my soul is really.
There are songs of thank you, Alanis Morrisette has a good one, Simple Plan too. Both titled ‘Thank You’.
Fall Out Boys back handed “Thanks For The Mmmrs” or My Chemical Romances “Thanks for the Venom” take a new angle on an old expression
A lot of the ‘traditional’ Thanksgiving songs reference thanking God for good fortunes and blessings on this day.
I suppose atheists can thank themselves or monkeys or something instead but thanks should still be giving for the good fortunes and accomplishments you have made.
I guess you can thank yourself.
I think that’s how this all began
I think in a world full of ego and self righteousness we decided to thank ourselves instead of others.
We decided somewhere between the soup and the nuts to screw thanking anyone cuz if it weren’t for us, well there would be nothing anyway.
If I didn’t work my butt off all day you wouldn’t have that dead bird with the grease cover on the 8 thousand dollar dining room set with crystal goblet so screw you I’m thanking myself.
Yeah… come to think of it who should we thank anyway?
Should I thank you for reading this?
Should I thank anonymous for calling my best friend a gay Iranian?
Should I thank the tax man or the butcher that killed that bird?
What exactly am I thanking anyone for anyway? A job that sucks up my life? Erratic weather? These ill fitting shoes (hate these btw)
Thank you for the ability to live in a world of turmoil and injustice surrounded by people who think only of themselves sucking Starbucks and wearing flip flops.
THANK WHO?
That, my friends, is what separates us all.
If you don’t know WHO to thank, you’re too far gone. There is a chance in a month you could be visited by three ghosts of course then buy a goose and give it to the cripple kid, but chances are slim.
Thank someone- you’re not alone.
Helen Bach
rock nyc