Jim Huggins (jkhuggins) wrote,
Jim Huggins
jkhuggins
  • Mood: confused

On thanksgiving

So, it's Thanksgiving.  And everyone on their blogs or Facebook statuses is talking about what they're thankful for.

And ... I'm not feeling thankful.

It's not that I don't have things to be thankful for.  I can sit down and come up with an objective list of plenty of things that I'm blessed to have that I don't deserve in the slightest.

It's the feeling that's missing.  It's odd.  It's not that I'm resentful, or ungrateful, or ... anything, really.  It's just ... nothing.  I feel a whole lot of nothing in particular.

And so when I see all of these postings about the things people are grateful for, I feel ... oddly out of touch. 
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