Happy Thanksgiving!

It's difficult for me to read others blogs or words when they're thankful for a list of things. And most people are quick to say they're thankful for their new cars, their roomy houses, their husbands who take good care of them, their fat wallets, and the list goes on. All that's well and great- for them. Some of us are thankful for more important things than those of a material nature, and we're happy with those things, when we can have them. To me, it sometimes comes across as rubbing it in the faces of those not as fortunate, and who actually want to be better of materially. To me, notice I said that.

And to me, the human world is a bitter, fierce, greedy and very evil place.

Don't get me wrong: I'm truly happy when I see people are happy, and I certainly do not begrudge anybody as much happiness as they can glean from this life. Not at all. We each have our own personal lists of what makes us happy. Mine mostly includes needs, with a few non-material wants such as peace from a very stressful life and world, and a break every now and again from the pressures of life. But when I see the lists, sometimes I liken it to some poker players who get lucky on the river and then rub it in the faces of those they beat badly. They got one lucky card, and that's how they won. They chased that very short dream on a call and a hope for the miracle river card with nothing at all in their favor till the literal very end. They played the hand badly and ended up rewarded for it.

Then their response is an immediate "whew", or "wow, did I get lucky", followed by jeers of a stolen victory to those they basically cheated out of a winning hand till that last card. I call those people bad winners because they are. It's understandable to lose less than gracefully in a hand like that, because you know you did everything correct. It's quite another thing to win less than graciously when you knew damn well that the entire time you were chasing with nothing. Win or lose in poker, it's inevitable that will happen, and it will happen quite often.