Happy Thanksgiving :]

Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks, no matter what words you use, it all means the same thing, happy. We’re supposed to be happy, grateful for friends, family, happy to just be alive, whether we like it or not.

Maybe were not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe were thankful for the few things we know. And maybe were thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.

Anger

In life we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones; gluttony, pride, lust. But the sin you don't hear much about is ANGER. Maybe its because we think anger is not that dangerous that you can't control it. My point is,maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to disruptive behavior, it did make the top 7.

So what makes anger different from the 6 other deadly sins?

Its pretty simple really.
You give in to a sin like envy or pride then you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself and probably one or two others. But anger, anger is the worst, the mother of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge. When it does, you can take an awful lot of people with you.

Same Diff

We all go through life like bowls of soup in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there, doing damage to ourselves, to other people. The problem is, trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done or that has been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we could fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we couldn't see.

We are all damged, it seems some of us more than others. we carried the damage with us from childhood, then as grownups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.

Play

Life is not a spectator's board. Win, lose or draw, the game is in progress whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead, argue wuth the rest. Change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds, but play. Play hard, play fast, play loose and free and play as if theres no tomorrow.

Okay, so its not whether you win or lose. Its how you play the game, right?!