How do you celebrate Thanksgiving Day in India?
January 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
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| Happy Thanksgiving Day |
I was wondering several weeks ago, how about ifI wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving Day? What would I do and will it make anydifference in my routine or my life?
Answers never came from anywhere because I neverasked them from any other person. I was just too afraid to even ask, ‘how isThanksgiving Day celebrated?’. Why? For an obvious reason; people around mewould definitely ask after I asked them the ‘question’, “Why on earth would youwant to celebrate it anyway?”
The answer was, ‘Just for a change!’ Yeah,that’s it. I’ve started celebrating Valentine’s Day and Christmas to change theatmosphere around me. Now, I wanted to something different. The problem is, Idon’t know how to!
I am a complete vegetarian, with an exceptionto Chocolate cakes (with eggs, but nothing else), and I can celebrateThanksgiving by eating Turkey with my friends who are not vegetarian. Anyway,after looking further into it, I think that its just a way to celebrate thisday, when you thank God for providing you life and the contents in it.
That’s all that I need to know. I am going tocelebrate Thanksgiving on 25th Nov 2010. One of my good friend,Jake, is from US and he totally want me to celebrate this day. He is prettyreligious and says that celebrating this day brings ‘wonders’ in your life. Idon’t know how much of that is true, but anyway, I am definitely in need ofsome amazing ‘wonders’ in my life (“nice one”). He wanted to tell me everylittle history about this day. However, I told him to be quite and figure outthe meaning of this day on my own because every bite of more information was goingto confuse me. Anyway, this is what I am going to do and before I get writingmy plan for you, please accept my Best Wishes for Thanksgiving Day 2010.
· Iam going to wake up pretty early on 25th Nov, and then I am going totake a bath without having breakfast and wish our Gods ‘A Happy ThanksgivingDay’.
· Also,I am going to thank him for everything that they have given me and apologizefor cursing them whenever I got into some trouble because of my mistakes andblamed on them.
· Next,I am going to request their blessings over me till I walk this earth. I wouldalso like to pray on the behalf of my family and friends who didn’t want me tocelebrate this day because it was not our festival. However, since thesefestivals are human-made, I figured that each human has the choice to decidewhich festival he/she wants to celebrate.
· ThenI am going to watch Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part I in my nearesttheatre, because I promised my friends that I’d give them a treat once I headback to my place and now that I am here, I better keep my word.
· ThenI am going to bake a chocolate cake for my group that I hope would turn outgood and unfortunately, is not going to be ‘egg-less’.
· Otherplans are reserved for my friends and I still haven’t told them that I amactually going to celebrate my first ever Thanksgiving.
This plan is simple and if ‘Thanksgiving’wasn’t attached to this day, it would turn out ‘just-another-day’. I just wishthat I actually had someone special to celebrate this day with and who couldactually believe that, celebrating some days, do bring ‘wonders in life’.
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