Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Take A Stand



“Isn’t it peculiar, Charlie Brown, how some traditions just slowly fade away.”
–Lucy, after she pulls the football away from Charlie Brown, just as he's about to kick it.

 I find it interesting that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving originally aired in 1973, to which this quote derives from. Perhaps Charles M. Schulz, the Peanuts creator, was prophesying the future.

As we approach Thanksgiving here in America, there is much ado about how are culture has drastically changed. Black Friday (where stores open at the wee hours of the am to throw sale prices our way for Christmas) has now been pushed to one day earlier, Thanksgiving Day, and pulling Americans away from their families.

On behalf of America, I apologize to all my readers from other countries. These new standards in our culture here in America doesn't reflect all of us.  There are quite a number of us who are taking a stand and rejecting the option of shopping on Thanksgiving Day just to save a few bucks.

As one of my friends put it quite bluntly,

"If we go out and shop on Thanksgiving Day, we are saying to that person behind the counter that we don't care if you are being taken away from your family on this holiday."

Henry Ward Beecher once said,

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." 

 This holiday season my hope is that all true Americans will take part in spreading hope and love where it's needed. And may we put away our selfish pride.













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