To Thank

Thanksgiving day is a day of sharing appreciation. This appreciation is aggrandized by large amounts of food, which the body appreciates, and marks as reason to be thankful for the world that one lives in. What is being appreciated on this day, is the acquisition of a new land, the freedom of that land, the abundance of the production in that land, and the existence of family and people in that land.

When we thank people what are we doing? When a person thanks someone else they are showing that accept their kindness, their altruism, or plainly their actions. Take for example the phrase, "no thanks." This phrase shows us that thanks is acceptance.

Being thankful is part of etiquette, manners, treating other people with notice of their kindness. It may not be much of a tool, but as they say, a little thanks can go a long way.

If we approach the world and be thankful for it, we stimulate our own sense of being, in noticing the world as it is, is something to be "acceptant of". What do you have to be thankful for?

From thinking of this idea through out the day, I have thought about how being thankful might be consider a positive effector in relationships. People can appreciate others through gifts, as in the saying "Just a little way of saying thanks." There is a distinction that becomes noticed, between being thankful and exhibiting flattery, admiration, or other forms of human acceptence.