Today, many people across the country are situated in homes filled with the ones they love and cherish the most. People who love them for who they are, without judgment or premeditations but unconditionally. On this day, Thanksgiving, people around the world are giving thanks. They sit around the dinner table or in group settings, sharing memorable stories and joyous experiences. Conversely, they share stories that caused them the most heartbreak and disappointment, resulting in tears and negative moods, thoughts, and emotions.
Most people think Thanksgiving is simply about giving thanks, but this day is designed for self-reflection. It is also intended to remind people across the globe to forgive and even forget. Forgiving does not mean you have to reenter unwanted or toxic relationships. Forgiving simply means that you have contentiously continued your life without some individuals.
Too often, people suppress their feelings due to the fear of facing traumatic experiences that will result in them shedding tears or being angry. People fail to forgive others for their wrongdoing and neglect, allowing those past situations to forever cast a thick dark shadow over their lives in ways that prevent them from seeing the light of situations or the good in individuals. Situations that cause them to project their negative energy on others due to its overwhelmingness. They become grudgeful, heartless, unempathetic, emotionally unavailable, and cannot show compassion. In all truth, people who do not have anything to be thankful for are broken beyond repair. Broken to the point where no one and no situation can repair them, even if it takes a lifetime. They embrace resentment and never forgive, but they also fail to consider the fact that tomorrow is not promised to anyone.
So, for this day, I beg everyone to forgive. I ask everyone to come to peace with oneself. Inner peace is something everyone deserves and can be one of the best and most self-fulfilling feelings in the world as long as you know how to accept and disapprove of anything that affects such emotional feelings.
Inner peace can happen to anyone outside of achieving any other life accomplishment.
Even if it means conversing with yourself privately and pretending the person who has done you wrong is sitting right in front of you. Release, let go, and share your thoughts, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Get them out because keeping them in is only causing more damage than good and will only damage and harm future relationships and interactions.
Today, on Thanksgiving, and every day after—for the rest of your life, free yourself from negative thoughts and emotions. Self-reflect and be thankful. Give yourself grace. Release all the bottled-up feelings you have been suppressing for years or your entire life. Cry, shout, and scream as loud as you can, regardless of who’s watching. You deserve personal freedom. When you “let go and let God,” it sets the path that allows you to live freely and unhinged.
Regardless of all you have accomplished throughout the years, surround yourself with the people you love the most. Not just on Thanksgiving but year-round. In doing so, be sure that the persons you surround yourself with reciprocate such feelings and emotions. If they do not, do not hesitate to correct the situation even if it means specific individuals become distant relatives, friends become foes or strangers, or persons who have intentionally or unintentionally, or even suspiciously withered away and fallen into the dark background or a branch that has fallen off your deeply rooted tree. Find and maintain your inner peace. Be thankful and joyous. From here on out, be intentional and deliberate in your actions and behaviors. Even if you are spending Thanksgiving alone, voluntarily or involuntarily, this is your way of getting back to yourself, self-reflecting, and evaluating the reality of life, love, death, friendships, family, and all persons you want to respectfully involve in your life and knowing that they too wholeheartedly and undoubtedly want you in their lives as well.
Outside of giving thanks around the dinner table, use this time to share information or ask questions that fall outside the scope of Thanksgiving. Ask yourself, “What is one thing you have regretted your entire life?” But also divulge intimate details of how you will address the situation moving forward because what is more concerning is your hidden regrets have ultimately dampened your mood and spirit. Addressing such regrets now will make you feel like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
I wish you all the best.
Huge hugs to the persons you love and are thankful for.
But more importantly, hug the persons you feel need it the most. In rare cases, these could be strangers or persons you have known for a lifetime.
If no one has told you already, YOU are magnificent, beautiful, brave, courageous, inspiring, talented, perspicacious, resilient, and demonstrate the qualities to persevere.
You are in control of your own destiny.
Allow no one to deter or steer you wrong or down paths filled with turmoil, disappointment, and unnecessary obstacles.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. More specifically, Happy Thanksgiving to all persons who have positively influenced my life and assisted and supported me in overcoming tumultuous and devastating situations, difficult times, and many unforeseen circumstances. THANK YOU to all persons who have been my teachers, motivators, leaders, positive reinforcers, cheerleaders, my rocks, emotional foundation, and support system, and those who have principally guided me in and out of uncharted territory in ways that can help me reposition and find my place in life.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, THANK YOU AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Au'Pearce 