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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Daily Cascade #1102389 added November 25, 2025 at 1:28pm Restrictions: None
On Thanksgiving and Thankfulness
Prompt: Thanksgiving
What is thankfulness to you and why is an expression of gratitude important? Also, should we be grateful in only one day in a year?
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No, definitely not. Gratefulness should not be held captive inside only one day in the year. That one day, however, is a reset button for us to keep on being grateful. Although I can see that some may take it as a ritual and others as a boundary for gratefulness.
Yet, I do love the Thanksgiving Day. What I mean is, once the Thanksgiving day is over and we have given ourselves the permission "to have done our thankfulness, once and for all," we are more excited to take part in the Black Friday savings, and our feeling thankful has changed into consumerism. Also, if we say, "I'm thankful for..." only because it's Thanksgiving, it means we haven't mastered the feeling of thankfulness throughout the year.
As to the original question in the prompt, thankfulness to me is a way of living that needs to be honored everyday. That is why some of us keep daily thankfulness journals. This way, we don't constrict our gratitude and we learn to appreciate even the tiniest details in our lives.
This is because feeling and expressing and writing about the things we're thankful for, every day or often, is an antidote to entitlement. depression, and cynicism. It turns the ordinary into extraordinary and strengthens our capacity for empathy, resilience, and connection. It is not about ignoring our difficulties, but about finding the light within the shadows.
At the end, being truly thankful gives me a positive sight of the world. Bring truly thankful offers me the appreciation for my first sip of the tea in the morning, the warmth of my loved ones' smiles, finding the right words when I write, the resilience of my own spirit when something goes wrong, plus the sight of the birds, trees, and sunset, and the ocean because they exist, and I have been given the ability to see and enjoy them.
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