Ginger's Thanksgiving!

Before I tell you what I've been up to the past week (exams, and more exams to come), I want to share my little 2 cents about what it means to be grateful...

It's something that should happen everyday and thankfulness is something we should encounter all the time. I wonder why though, why all of us (myself included) have such a hard time when it comes to remembering how privileged we are. I know that I should be grateful for the abundance that I have been blessed with, yet sometimes I refuse to acknowledge it in order to feel sorry for myself. I think that in our lives we are so consumed by what we should have, that when some trivial problem surfaces, we sit around moping rather than fixing the problem. We don't know what to do because we are consumed by our own sense of self entitlement. I realized that I can't really force others to change how they feel, but what I can do is start with myself:

I will be thankful for all the good things that I have, but I will also be thankful when it is hard to remember to be:
I will be thankful for the problems that make my life difficult, because problems offer the gift of solution (however indirectly)
I will be thankful because problems build character and wisdom as I set out to conquer each and every one.
I will be thankful even when I incur a loss because it will teach me not to make that mistake twice.
I will be grateful for shitty friends because it will help me appreciate the good ones and help me become a better one
I will be grateful for my lack of natural skill and affluence because I will hunger for success and build good work habits through copious amount of effort
I will be grateful for every extra step that I have to take because it will teach me perseverance.

Yup, I think that's about it.


So this is a mini update on how I spent my thanksgiving weekend:

Thanksgiving at church

So my mom doesn't actually cook our own turkey until a week after thanksgiving, because my mom's in charge of providing the meal above for our entire church (that is a lot of turkeys). I'll post on that on Saturday along with a special message to my brother (it's his birthday today!)

@Dasarang

I also celebrated my dear friend Jimmy's birthday. We ate delicious chicken with green onions. We went to karaoke/noraebang after and rocked out (well I rocked out) to a bunch of MCR.

Why post this picture if I'm going to blank out their faces? To prove that I have friends.
Happy belated Jimmy!!!!