This year a bunch of stores are opening on Thanksgiving night instead of the traditional early Friday morning. It's ridiculous and unnecessary and sad that our society it that driven by trying to please consumers that stores feel the need to open on Thanksgiving. This morning on Facebook I saw an article that perfectly sums up my thought on this issue. The article is titled "If You Shop on Thanksgiving, You Are Part of the Problem." I highly recommend that you read it. Here is the link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-walsh/shopping-on-thanksgiving_b_4310109.html
Although there are many great lines in the article, here is one of my favorites:
"How appropriate, then, that a holiday created by our ancestors as an occasion to give thanks for what they had, now morphs into a frenzied consumerist ritual where we descend upon shopping malls to accumulate more things we don't need. Our great grandparents enjoyed a meal and praised the Lord for the food on the table and the friends and family gathered around it. We, having slightly altered the tradition, instead elect to bum-rush elderly women and trample over children to get our hands on cheap TVs."
SO TRUE. Not to mention how sad it is that the store workers have to leave their families and miss thanksgiving dinner just so we can trample each other for sale items when we should be home with our own families giving thanks for what we have. Although I could write a lot more on this, I'll leave it at that.
The other day I was in major procrastination mode. I decided to catch up on some TV shows such as How I Met Your Mother and Glee. It's convenient that certain websites let you watch all of the episodes for free without having to download anything. The How I Met Your Mother episode was super adorable. In the end, Ted proposed to "the mother" on top of a beautiful lighthouse that overlooked the ocean. Glee was also enjoyable. Kurt was holding auditions for a band he was creating. This one guy came to audition and was freaking amazing.
After watching these two shows:
1. I wished that I had a cute and romantic guy like Ted. Ted and the mom (did they say her name yet? I can't remember) are so in love and it's so cute and I'm so jealous.
Even the two gay guys on Glee are an adorable couple! I am even jealous of their relationship (in a non-homosexual way though haha). When Blaine proposed to Kurt it made me tear up a bit, which is very unlike me.
[side note: speaking of homosexuals, Illinois finally passed the same sex marriage bill this week. Yay!]
2. I wished that I could wow people with an amazing talent (it doesn't have to be singing).
I really am perfectly content with my life, my (lack of) dating situation, the talents that I do have, etc. But when I watch these shows I can't help but think to myself I WANT THAT. Even though it is a show and not reality, there is some truth behind it. I've seen real life couples who appear as soul mate worthy as TV show lovers. However, the show ends and I continue on with my day. I forget about all of the things that the shows made me wish that I had in my life. I'm 22 years old. I have time.
I'm scared to be done with college and I'm scared to be a student teacher.
I'm scared to get injured again and I'm scared that my legs and hips will never stop being tight/sore/achy like they have been for a month straight.
I'm scared that I'm too anxious and too obsessive compulsive and too unwilling to change.
But I know that I can overcome all of these fears and concerns because I really have no other choice than too. Eventually, I will be done with college and student teaching and be out in the real world. My body will do whatever it wants to do so all that I can do is take care of it to the best of my ability. If I ever want to be spontaneous or travel or get out of my comfort zone, I'm the only one that can make that happen.
I don't know where I am going with this post. All that I know is what the question "what are you afraid of?" presents itself, the furthest things from my mind are those that are the most common or obvious choices, such as spiders, drowning, death, ghosts, etc. I'm scared of the uncertainty of the future. But I'm excited about it too.
