Are You A Thanksgiving Scrooge?

When Thanksgiving day arrives, are you like I used to be and try with all your might to be thankful, only to find complaints going through your mind all the time? The turkey might be too tough, or there’s not enough. The dressing is too sticky, and then you begin to think of those irritating people, like Vicki. You might even ask, “Why does Thanksgiving day have to cost me so much?” Do you complain about being fat, when in fact, it was you who chose to eat way too much and become way too stuffed? After that, do you take a nap, wake up and eat too much again? Do you then begin to watch the clock to see when Thanksgiving Day will finally end? If so, please allow me to advise you as if we were friends.

You see, if those Thanksgiving issues are true for you, it means you’re a Thanksgiving Scrooge, but luckily, you’ve made a friend like me who used to be a Thanksgiving Scrooge too. I know just what you should do, but you’ll need to open your mind and eyes to see what Thanksgiving means. That’s why I’ve derived some facts and answered questions just for people like you who refuse to use gratitude as a way to survive all those Thanksgiving days of your life.


1. Why, of all times, do I complain on Thanksgiving Day?

I’ve come to believe the reason people complain on Thanksgiving day is the same reason they complain every other day of their lives. It all revolves around those monsters we create in our minds, which tend to bite our behinds on holidays and such events when we are intended to be happy and thankfully serene.

2. What does serene mean?

You see, that’s exactly what creates monsters in our minds. The fact that we don’t know what serene means is exactly why those monsters bite our behinds all the time, and especially on Thanksgiving Day. Serenity means we are able to find peace of mind on any given time, even when the turkey’s too tough or there’s not enough stuff to eat. Serenity means you can even be thankful for irritating people like Vicki who always makes dressing that’s way too sticky, but if you don’t find peace of mind, you’ll find a monster or two which makes a Thanksgiving Scrooge out of you.

3. What do monsters in the mind look like?

They look like those people, things and happenings that made you afraid of Thanksgiving Day in the first place. It’s uncle Jack, who in fact, induced a sense of lack in you through his critical view of the way you act, or the fact of sibling rivalry which seems to create competition issues with your cousins too. Then again, the monster might be those people who are never pleased by what you think, say or do, and since that’s true, the monsters in your mind hide your eyes from the ability to see them through a view of gratitude. Instead, the monster in your mind takes control of Thanksgiving day long before it arrives, like a self fulling prophesy of some kind. That’s when you begin to think you have ESP and can predict those things which then tend to arrive on the Thanksgiving Day scene, each and every time. That’s why monsters in your mind bite your behind all the time.


4. How do monsters in my mind bite my behind?

They make you a mess of stress long before the mess is ever made on Thanksgiving Day. They refuse to allow you to assume anything but the worst possible scenario, so they begin to bite your behind long before the day arrives, and by Thanksgiving Day, you show up as a mess of stress and unable to assume the best. The take peace of mind and what might have been a great day away and replace serenity with the insanity that keeps everything and everyone who comes into your view an enemy to you.


5. How do I get rid of the monsters in my mind?

Just get over the past that in fact can’t last when you refuse to allow those monsters in your mind to bite your behind, and by the time Thanksgiving Day arrives, you’ll feel at ease and with a sense of what serenity means.


6. Please remind me, just one more time, how do I find peace of mind?


Choose to look through a view of gratitude. When you do, you’ll eat turkey that’s tough, but you’ll see clearly enough the fact that although it might be over done, it was cooked with love. You’ll see the dressing is sticky, but this fact won’t make you irritated with Vicki. In fact, you might even compliment Vicki’s sticky dressing and say, “Hey that was great, and by the way, I’m so grateful today for the fact that Vicki makes the dressing so I don’t have to those sticky things only Vicki can do. So you see, gratitude is it’s all changing your scrooge attitude, and when you do, you’ll find peace of mind. After that, you’ll begin to see the fact that those monsters in your mind don’t bite your behind all the time.


In the end, when those monsters in your mind are released to tranquility, that’s when they begin to fade away and stop biting your behind, even on Thanksgiving Day. That’s when you’ll no longer be the family scrooge who looks through an ungrateful view, but the new and improved family blessing who finds a way to say, “Thanks,” even for your DNA on Thanksgiving Day.