What actually is the feast of Thanksgiving for?
Many say it’s actually a feast to mourn and not to celebrate. So many opinions go as far as siding on either the Native Americans or the Colonial Americans. But here is a short video that may help you understand how in gratitude, we can all move on from remembering unfortunate events.
Being oriented of how events had given birth to this feast, it encourages everybody not to lose faith with the human race. It is undeniable that many people have gone through some sort of deprivation, losses and grief because of illness, famine and despair. But, sometimes, our fate has to take this course for us to see the collateral beauty. Sometimes, bad things happen, for us to appreciate good things.
Emotional intelligence could just grasp as much depending on the things we’ve gone through. Resilience develops when one is able to move from one unfortunate event to becoming hopeful. And that’s why this feast is worth commemorating and celebrating.
Perhaps that’s why Abraham Lincoln granted the petition led by Sarah Joseph Hale to be set on every last Thursday of November, at the start of the Autumn season. When we all know, the Autumn season is all about letting go of the old, giving space to anew as it leads all the way to Winter.
HOW DID IT BECOME ESTABLISHED ALL THE WAY?
All because of Sarah Josepha Hale.
She was an American writer who firmly believed that Thanksgiving should be hailed as a National Holiday. How?
She created a movement for its approval by writing a one-woman-letter-campaign. In the name of bringing people together in the name of gratitude, this petition supported his passion in uniting the nation through the civil. It is a very good example of finding the courage to start anew by letting go of the past.
WHAT IS THANKSGIVING FOR YOU?
1600’s celebrated Thanksgiving together to remember the lives they’ve lost and honour the bonds that were formed. In 1700’s, Thanksgiving was observed for a week even a month as a form of fasting and giving thanks to God for a good harvest to get through the painful challenges of Winter. Later after that, they feasted to celebrate victory from the battles with English men and recovery of their mother land. If you would actually look closely, every event was preceded by something hard to remember. And isn’t that how we find a reason to be thankful for? When we live beyond the odds?
