Being Thankful This Thanksgiving

The following program Studios Production. Hey everybody, and welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to another episode of Weiss's Thoughts. I'm your humbled host, Terry Weiss, and on this program we gather around the virtual campire and talk about topical topics and what's on my mind. And on this episode of the podcast today, we're going to talk about obviously the impending holiday this week, Thanksgiving, and things you can be thankful for other than stuffing your face. It's all coming up this time on the Wiss Thoughts podcast. So gather your favorite beverage, grab a comfortable seat around our virtual campfire, and let's get into it, shall we. On this episode of Wis's Thoughts Thanksgiving twenty twenty five, what are you thankful for? Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to Weis's Thoughts. I am Terry Weiss, your host, and I'm so glad that you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today on the podcast. 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You know what, lately in the United States, I think over the past five years or so, it seems like holidays never end. I mean, we've got commercials here in the US of a year round. I mean they started with Thanksgiving and Christmas almost in September and October Halloween wasn't even here. Halloween wasn't even here yet, and they started advertising for Christmas and stuff. And come on, I don't know, call me old fashioned, call me a little kookie, but I grew up in a time where we actually celebrated the holidays around the holidays. And we've got one coming up here this week, just a couple of short days away here as of the recording of this episode of the Woice Thoughts podcast, and that is Thanksgiving. That's when we here in the US celebrate the fact that when our ancestors from a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far far away, came to this continent and made friends with the Indians and indigenous people whichever term you prefer in this day and age, and celebrated, you know, goodwill and friendship and the fact that they had survived. I mean, think about this for a second. I want you to think about this. And I was contemplating this myself back in the day. Okay, we're talking like sixteen hundreds or so, was it sixteen seventeen hundreds when our ancestors first came to this continent. They came across an ocean on wooden wooden ships across an ocean thousands and thousands of miles. They didn't know what the weather was going to be. They huddled themselves in and said, we're going for it. Talk about the courage, the gumption, the faith that that had to have, that an individual and a family had to have to just pack up everything in a in a you know, in a land that they were used to and somewhat comfortable with, even if they were persecuted, but they were comfortable, they knew the kind of knew the rules, and you know, their their surroundings to chuck all that cast their care as they say, and get on wooden ships, trusting that the people navigating those ships knew what that hell they were doing, and hoping by the powers that be that they weren't killed on the journey here. Would you do something like that? I don't know if I could do that. I honestly don't think it's in my nature. You know. I get a little nervous if I get in the wrong neighborhood, but thank god I got GPS. You know, if I'm going to a new location or something and I get to picked the wrong turn off the expressway, I'm like, eh, I don't know where I am. Thank goodness for GPS and the twenty first century, but to have that courage to say, yeah, I'm going to leave this all behind, whether you came by yourself or with a spouse, or with a whole family. And many died along the way. You know, there was disease rampant back in the day. On the ships. You had lice, dysentery, smallpox was around. The flu. The flu could kill you back in the day, just as deadly as anything. Pneumonia, a common cold. You know, they didn't go down to the local walgreens if they got sick and you know, get some you know, get some day quill. They did the best with the knowledge they had. And wasn't it divine? I guess divine providence that they they most of them made it. And then to come to a land that they know nothing about. Nothing, They don't know if there's giants here, dragons, I mean, who knows. They just parked their boats, anchored their boats and came ashore and said, okay, we're here. Now we got to figure out how to hell to live and survive. I mean, hell, many of us today when our internet goes down, we panic and think it's the end of the world. Or I've seen the younger generation when their cell phone goes asunder it doesn't work, it's the end of the world. And you know what I used to be that way. I mean, when that goes down now it's an inconvenience, yeah, you know. Or if we lose power a little bit, yeah, it's an inconvenience. However, you know, I've adjusted my attitude lately and I know I can survive. However, a lot of you out there can't. Just the slightest thing throws you into a you know, a panic attack. You got to run for your you know, your quantupin or your valume or whatever. I mean, I don't think we're as tough a generation as as our ancestors. And I'm lumping myself in with that. My friends, I'm not, you know, but they came to this land with hopes and dreams and not knowing, not knowing, not knowing what lay before them, okay, not knowing what lay ahead of them and just said, oh boy, I hope this works. I hope it does. And their generations hard work, perseverance, triumph and tragedy. Here we are now in the twenty first century in the United States of America. Huh, amazing, isn't it. I mean, I think a lot of us lose sight of what Thanksgiving is really about. Like a lot of holidays, it's just oh, you know, a lot of us like it's a day off from work, or geez, the stores are gonna be closed, or there's gonna be no mail, or you know, maybe we'll take the kids to a movie. I think for a lot of us. And again I'm putting myself in this. Okay, it's gonna take a separate liquid refreshment here. Ah, nothing like a little good old fashioned h two. Oh, you know, a lot of us need to really do some deep introspective thought and remember what and why we celebrate these holidays, not just for the barbecues and the days off and the giving of presence and shooting off of fireworks or what have you. And especially with Thanksgiving, we should be all thankful. We should get up every day and fall to our knees and thank the Good Lord above or whatever entity you may or may not believe in, and be thankful that we live in a country for the most part, that we have freedom. I don't have to show papers. To go to this town, you must show your papers. I don't have to do that. I don't have to worry about if my wife wants to get a job, that she might be killed for embarrassing me because she wants to work. I don't have to worry about living under a socialist, communist regime where I'm allowed to make what I want to make of myself. If I want to better my social status in life, my financial status. The only thing that's limiting me for the most part is my willingness to obtain either the knowledge and the know how for the ways and means to give myself upward mobility. There's no one really keeping me down. Contrary to what many of you youngsters might hear out there, now, are there things that can be improved in this country? Hell? Yeah, Hell, there's a saying that I've kind of been thinking about. There's always room for improvement, and you can apply this across everything, starting with yourself. When you look in the mirror, I can improve. I'm going to be better than I was the day before. We can always improve all of us. There is no. Onemperfect on this globe. You can improve your relationships, you can improve your outlook in life. You can improve your fitness, you can improve your eating habits, you can improve everything. So, you know, for some some of us out here that are looking for pie in the sky Shangrilah where you get up every day and the flowers fall from the ceiling as you rise out of bed, and the rose petals, you know, go to your feet and everyone bows and curtsies towards you because you're just alive, converting you know, oxygen into carbon dioxide. Well, that euphoria on a daily basis is just not reality, my friends. Life sometimes can be hard, it can be glorious. It has you know, it has ebbs and flows, you know, highs and lows, and you have to learn to deal with the highs and not get too high, and the lows and not get too low. To try and maintain a steady demeanor and be thankful, be thankful for things. And we should all be thankful that we live in the United States of America and that we are citizens of this nation, those of us that are citizens. You know, some. Organizations out there, and some people of a certain mindset will say the United States sucks. It's terrible, It's an oppressive society. It's systemic racist. Well, let me ask you a question. If we were so terrible, if this country was so awful, why in the hell is everybody in the world trying to get here, and a lot of them coming illegally. It's a fair question, ain't it, if we're so awful? Okay, if somebody said, hey, in that room is somebody who's gonna beat the other love on hell out of you. It's cold, it's like forty degrees, it's damp, it's rainy, there's insects and snakes in there. Plus they're gonna you're gonna go in, They're gonna beat the hell out of you. Would you be all right, Yeah, let me in. Come on, I want to know. There's a guard there. I'm gonna get to try and find a way to go around that guard. I want in that room. No in anybody would common sense wouldn't do that. But if they said, boy, in that room, you know what, through that door, my friend, his opportunity is a chance to better yourself and have a better life for your children, and better opportunity, you won't live oppressed. You'll have chances, you'll have the same fair shake as everybody else. If you're willing to work hard and put in the sweat equity and better yourself and do what it takes and handle adversity and triumph over it and never give up. But you have an opportunity to reach a larger, a better plateau. All you got to do is come here and walk through the door, and someone will be on the other side to assist you. Would you do it? Heck, yeah, who wouldn't. I don't know. No, I want to just sit here and be lazy. I'd rather sit here and live under a oppressive dictatorship where I have to just get up and work twelve hours a day and I get to eat porridge three times a day, and you know, I have no health care and whatever. I don't think many people would choose that life. I don't. So that's that's what I mean when I'm saying we should all be thankful, thankful, thank our lucky stars that we live in the United States of America. And you should think about that this week as we talk about Thanksgiving. It's not just about the Black Friday sales after and small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday and how many gifts and money you can save. We should remember our ancestors that came here, that fought and died and scratched and clawed for the American dream to form a country. And you should be thankful as you're sitting around that table, even if there's relatives that you don't like and can't stand and might have completely opposite social worldviews and political views with just you know what, Tuck that stuff in your back pocket, tuck your ego in your back pocket for a day, and just get along. Find common ground. Talk about the kids, talk about the weather, talk about you know, the baseball game you saw this year, the hockey game, or the football game, or put all that other shit aside. Just take that off, put it in a room, lock it up, put it over there, and just enjoy the fact that you have family, relatives, sons, daughter's, nieces, nephews, grandkids that are still here and alive that you can appreciate. There's got to be something you can appreciate about someone, and do that as you sit at the table while you're enjoying your Thanksgiving turkey, because I think all of us can can do that at least for half a day. And if you can't, then you better look in the mirror and think to yourself, Okay, maybe I've got to address some issues within me. I mean, we should all be able to put things aside for at least a day and come together and celebrate this great holiday of Thanksgiving. Absolutely right, listeners, are you looking for a simple way to level up your focus and energy? Well, you know on this podcast, I talk a lot about health and vitality. That's why I'm excited to share some information about empower Plus. It's a functional superfood green powder from in Dear Life. It features powerful ingredients like lions main for cognition and broccoli microgreens for anti inflammatory support, and it's all in one scoop. Want to try it out? Well, right now, you can get fifteen percent off your entire order. That's right, fifteen percent off your whole order at a Dearer Life. Just visit a dear life dot com. That's ede r R A l y fe dot com. Use my special code Weiss Save that's w y c E s a ve E at the checkout that's Weiss Save for fifteen percent off at a dear life dot com. Fuel your thoughts and save today. Wearing his sunglasses indoors just because he wants to. Let's get back to the program. Here's your host, Harry Weiss. Yeah, that's right. I could wear my sunglasses inside. What was that song back in the eighties, I wear my sunglasses at at night? Yeah? What the heck song of that? Mister producers start here. I don't remember Corey Hart's Corey Hart. Yeah, am wow. Look it up on your favorite streaming service. Corey Heart doesn't say right, but you could be right anyhow. Welcome back to the program. Welcome back to White's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss, your humbled host, and we are talking about Thanksgiving on this episode of the White's Thoughts podcast. Yes we are, indeed, and we were talking before the break, a short little break there about putting aside your differences when you gather with the family this year. I mean, everybody can do that. I think I think that can be done, don't you. I think that's something that definitely. Can be done. Yeah, we can do that. I know we can do that. Anyhow, So other things, you know, when you're sitting around the Thanksgiving table or you know, watching football afterwards, you know, after you're stuffed with your turkey or whatever, typically your turkey and your cranberry sauce and stuffing and punkin pie. Things to be thankful for. I mean, gratitude is something I think a lot of us lack at times, and some of us more than others, more times than others. I mean, just being alive, being here for another day on the planet should definitely be something you should be thankful for, no matter what your situation. Be thankful that you have your health. Thankful if you could see here, taste, touched, feel, move, Those are things to be thankful for. Be thankful that you have a wife or a boyfriend or a girlfriend or had an opportunity to love. Be thankful if you have children. Okay, even if they're driving you crazy, I know, but be thankful that you have children. Maybe you have grandchildren, be thankful for them. Okay. You know. I was listening to another podcast earlier this week and the person had on a guest and he studied people that are in their nineties, and it was a geriatric podcast, informative kind of forum. And what the overall crux of the podcast or the overall theme of the podcast episode that was was when this doctor who was, you know, a geriatric doctor taking care of he says you know, I wanted to gather some information, and I'm paraphrasing what they said, of course, is that he says. The one commonality I found in all the elderly people in their nineties and everything. I asked them, what advice, what advice would you give to someone younger looking back on your life now that you're in the twilight of your life, And all of them, he said, overwhelmingly, all of them said, be glad you're alive, and enjoy every moment, the good, the bad, and the ugly, because life goes by and a snap, you know, they said, looking back, it's like almost like a blink of an eye. Oh my god. You know, one day I was twenty. Next day I wake up and I'm eighty. And they said, don't waste your time. Pursue your dreams, enjoy your life, Enjoy the triumphs and the trials, Enjoy the whole journey, because before you know it, it's it'll be coming to a close. No one knows how long all of us have, I mean, you know, the good Lord Willing, I hope all of you have a happy, healthy and a long life. However, no one knows. I mean, I've we've all experienced it. Haven't we a tragedy in our lives, someone taken too young, whether it's an accident and illness. You know, some tragedy befalls them. Families have gone through All families go through it. It's just part of the adventure that we call life. And the other thing that this doctor, this gentleman stated too is overwhelmingly the people he spoke with, stated that happiness is not a destination. Happiness is a state of mind, and I lose sight of that a lot. We think, well, when I get that raise at work, I'll be happy when my kids move out of the house. I'll be happy when I divorce this individual, I'll be happy. You know, when I retire, I'll be happy. You know when I go on vacation next month. Then I'll be no happy. If you're chasing happiness as a destination, they you know you're You're never going to be truly satisfied. You're not. You know when I buy this next item, I'll be happy when I get a newer car. I'll be happy when I get out of debt. I'll be Happiness is not a destination. It's a state of mind. Remember that, I remind myself of that almost daily. Sometimes I have to remind myself multiple times a day, you know, in the in the business that I am in, you know, the I guess you could call it the entertainment service business. You know, there's a lot of ups and downs. It's it's a radical roller coaster ride, man, But I love it. I love it. I wouldn't change it for the world, because, you know what, now, I'm working for myself now, per Sae, working for myself. I love a lot of clients, but I'm my boss. I'm solely responsible for the most part of whether I succeed or fail. And that's at the end of the day, I'm accountable to me. You know, there's no manager coming in saying on you. You know, we're doing some resizing and restructuring, so we're gonna have to lay off your whole team here next week. But thanks for your service. Here's a coffee bugain good luck. I don't have to worry about that crap. Okay, I don't have to worry about that garbage. And for those of you out there that like the corporate world and like the you know, the business, you know what, God bless you. I mean, if you enjoy that. If you can navigate that, that's cool me. I've I've had difficulty with just the the shenanigans from a lot of the corporate world. And there's a lot of stuff that I just my soul won't put up with anymore, you know, as I gain in years here, as i'm you know, the half century mark here, there's a lot of things that I just won't put up with. I've got a lot of life experience, and I've got and I've had good and bad, and you know what, looking back on it and reflecting, I'm great and thankful that I had the experiences that I had, the good and the bad, because it's made me the person who I am today and it's helping propel me forward to being a better person in the future. But just be thankful, like I said, if you've got your health, if you've got your family. Okay, if you got a job and you're happy that you have a job or just found a job, or maybe you're leaving a job, starting a career, or maybe you're getting ready to retire. You put in your time and now you said, you know what, now is me time? What have you? But enjoy it all. Be thankful for it, all the good, the bad, and the ugly, because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, all we have when we look in the mirror is ourselves, and if we can touch each other's lives in a positive way along the way, that's a good thing. So on this Thanksgiving just remember one important thing. Be thankful. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there. And remember to see a change in the world, you have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. 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