Giving Thanks

Tomorrow, in the U.S. at least, is Thanksgiving. It may be dif­fi­cult to tell some­times based on con­ven­tional obser­vance and media cov­er­age but there is a deeper mean­ing to this hol­i­day than four day week­ends, shop­ping and gorg­ing one­self on roasted fowl. Thanksgiving is about reflect­ing on what you are thank­ful for; although given the econ­omy, the two wars that we’re engaged in, and the dete­ri­o­rat­ing envi­ron­ment it may some­times be dif­fi­cult to find things to be thank­ful for.

In the true spirit of the hol­i­day, I want to reflect a lit­tle bit on what I am thank­ful for. There are many things I could write here, but I won’t. It’s too easy to make a facile list of ways in which I may hap­pen to be bet­ter off than the aver­age chump. Instead, I want to focus on the one thing that I am truly and hon­estly thank­ful for.

I am thank­ful for the friends in my life.

That’s it. It’s the bonds that we form with peo­ple in this world that bind us in the world; and true friends are the purest form of those bonds. I am lucky to have a great set of friends; both in the real world and across the greater inter­tubes. So, to my friends I offer my sin­cere and deep­est thanks.