Next week is the day officially set aside in the United States for giving thanks. How long has it been since we truly gave thanks on Thanksgiving Day? Perhaps it’s been too long. Many of our thoughts on this day are centered around a turkey—not what the turkey represents.
The TC Student Senate has proclaimed that this next week at TC will be “Thoughtful As Well As Thankful Week.” We are being asked to “give where a gift is needed.” What better way can one find to express his thankfulness than to share his blessings with others?
We in America are truly blessed . . . with freedom, with beauty, with a sense of pride in our country, its people, and its principles. Right here in Texarkana, there is a lot to be thankful for. One thing is our ability to attend college, to learn the lessons WE choose to learn. No one is telling us what to become.
Showing our thankfulness with thoughtfulness is a good way to express our appreciation to those who founded America, those in the past and present who suffer for her, die for her, and work to make her what she is . . . the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
We should give thanks every day of every week of every year. But for a start, next week let’s be thoughtful as well as thankful and share our good fortune with those less fortunate. Divyananda, an Indian philosopher, once said: “What we have done will not be lost to all eternity. Everything ripens at its time and becomes fruit at its hour.”
—The Editor