What Can I Do For People On Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is a time for celebration and the gathering of families to enjoy a hearty meal and count their blessings. Some of the things I can do for people on Thanksgiving include some things that everyone should do every day. Things like helping people cope with their problems and just BEING THERE can make a huge difference in people's lives. A couple of other things I can do are help people cook the DELICIOUS food that we all are guilty of gaining an average of 20 pounds apiece on, (lol), and reminding all the people around me to count their blessings and be thankful for the good things in their life. I think sometimes everyone just needs to be reminded of all the positive things in their lives that outweigh the curses. Life can be rough as sandpaper sometimes, but there's ALWAYS something good hidden beneath the struggle. Have a happy Thanksgiving and remember; In ALL things in life there is something beautiful... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! ;-)

SUCCESS!!!

I PASSED MY GED!!! I can't believe I passed both tests the first time I took them. I struggled so much in high school and taking the GED test was so easy. I'm glad I have my GED because now I can try to start college classes online. I'm really proud of my accomplishments. I haven't yet decided on exactly what I want to do for a solid career, but at least I can start applying for different colleges. I'm hoping that WVU gives online classes. My brother went to that college to become a mechanical engineer and he loved it. Online college would be WAY different, but at least it would be WVU. I'M SO HAPPY!!!

Dreams

No one knows for sure why people have dreams. They can be scary, happy, funny, or even completely irrational. Some dreams make lots of sense, others make no sense at all. Some dreams come true in reality and it can be a little scary. We all have dreams. They are an unavoidable part of life. Some people think they don't dream, but EVERYONE dreams. Even when you think you didn't dream on a certain night, you did, but you just don't remember it. Dreams most often contain people, places, things, or situations that are around you in your life. There are occasions where you'll have dreams that are completely irrelevant to anything going on in your life. These dreams are usually a signal to something you are feeling subconsciously. No one can control what they dream about. Sometimes I wonder what I'm going to dream about before I go to sleep at night. You just never know...

I just successfully complete the civics game The Cost of Life and I must say that it took me awhile, but I got the entire family to survive. They were poor, hungry, and sick, but they were alive. The point of the game is to not only survive, but to be happy and healthy. It's extremely difficult just in the game to accomplish this. I can't even imagine how tough it would be in reality. The easy thing about experiencing it on the computer is that if I get frustrated with it, I can just exit out of it and go back to my normal life. In reality, people who live in these conditions CAN'T just "exit out" of their problems. Hunger, sickness, and unhappiness is their life and it 100.5% REAL for them. They don't have the money for a huge turkey and all the dressings and sides for thanksgiving. They don't even have a house to eat it in! We don't think much about it because we're warm and well fed and reasonably happy. This Thanksgiving, when you're sitting at the table with your family, warm and happy with a huge meal in front of you, stop and think about all of the people who will spend Thanksgiving out on the streets cold and hungry without their family and friends. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, PEOPLE. Like the song says, 'god forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes, then you really might know what it's like.' (The song is called What It's Like by Everlast. Please look it up and listen to it. It makes a lot of sense.)