Spanksgiving

So my parent’s and relatives are pretty white washed when it comes to celebrating holidays. We do a large thanksgiving feast every year and it’s awesome just being with close family. I really have a lot to be thankful for.

After consuming pounds of meat and carbs, I must admit, life is way better than I deserve. They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach which I didn’t fully understand til tonight. Everything was just so good and nom nom no mnomonomonom. 

After tonight and watching a certain chick flick, I’ve realized that happiness in life is made of the little things. We take the little things we have for granted and assume it’s the standard issue item. I’m glad that I have all my limbs and that everything is in working order. That isn’t a standard, it’s a privilege and we’re all damn lucky. 

So this movie just made me realize how much I take for granted. Yea it’s lame that it requires a cheesy movie to spark some sort of realization. If you haven’t watched love and other drugs, just stop reading now cause here I wouldn’t wanna ruin a movie for someone. There was this part of the movie where the main character is sitting in the bathtub and the girl he’s with asks him to list 4 things that he thinks he’s good at or basically 4 compliments for himself and he fails to list any. I normally think it’s completely lame when any person compares themselves to a person in a movie but this time it kinda hit home because it reminded me of when i was really down this past summer and my older sister just asked me what I thought was best about myself and I was speechless and she just explained to me all the good things about me. Anyways, that was a pretty darn good movie. Lots of nudity but whatever, it was tastefully done.

If you can’t name 4 things good about yourself, you’re not appreciating what you have. I’ve always disliked pinpointing good things about myself cause I felt like it was a douchebag thing to do. But, I also believe that you need to understand what’s good about yourself in order to move confidently in it. I think i’m understanding more of how to be humble and yet confident. I’ve always tried to be humble but that always brought along some lingering lack of confidence. It’s good to know what you want and stick with it. I never felt like I lacked confidence, I just liked making other people feel more comfortable and happy rather than just for myself. It wasn’t until recently that I kinda found out that it came off as spineless. I suppose everything takes things their own way and I’m just gonna keep being myself and start making things comfortable for myself lol.

Anyways, here’s something that I’ve really decided on after the movie. The girl in the movie has parkinsons and still embraces everything in life so who am I to jack up my body and waste it away?

First on the list of things to change is the taking care of my body. I take a healthy body for granted by tossing bad stuff into it. To me it doesn’t seem like a problem but from an outsider’s perspective, it’s a problem. For the past week or two i’ve been trying to hang out with my non-smoker friends and it has helped me out significantly so we’ll see how things go. I don’t like making promises that I can’t keep so it’ll be a work in progress. 

The top 5 things I’m thankful for are 

1.) God 2.) Family 3.) Friends 4.) Being able to wake up every morning 5.) My puppy yoshi.