Hw 18

Thanksgiving morning my family and I were up around 9 and started eating food at 11. By the time the actual thanksgiving dinner was ready most of us were full. My two elderly aunts came to dinner and as they were eating I noticed that my aunts arthritis in her hand really effected the way she held her fork. She barley had a grip on it and her food kept falling off, it made me sad inside but I just got her a bigger fork and for the moment it helped. Later that night she said her hearing aid was acting up and she wanted to go home. I tried putting myself in her shoes and I just couldn't picture it. After dropping my aunt home I tried driving with the music really low, so I could try and feel what she was feeling and I got really annoyed really quickly because I knew music was playing but I couldn't make out exactly what was being said.

After paying attention to my aunt's disabilities I was very grateful for my good health and my parents health. Other then feeling sad, I felt overly stuffed and after vacuuming in all of my food I sat on the couch with my moms and watched football. The dishes stayed on the table until 1 in the morning and everyone had at least 2 helpings of pumpkin and apple pie. Laziness definitely kicked in and no one wanted to do anything. During dinner i brought up how I was getting tired from all the food and one of my moms brought up an interesting fact, she said that there's a chemical in turkey that actually makes people tired. Now I haven't checked if this was exactly true but it made some kind of sense.

If thanksgiving wasn't made to be a holiday were a lot of eating is done, I doubt people would use thanksgiving as an excuse to eat so much. My mother made so much food I have left overs for at least a week and a half, and everyone knows that thanksgiving food is probably not the healthiest food out there. So to hear people complain about how fat and unhealthy they feel after thanksgiving is extremely annoying. Thanksgiving is suppose to be about giving thanks to your loved ones and enjoying all the good in your life, not to complain about how fat you feel because of how much YOU decided to eat.