One of my least favorite holidays of the entire year is Thanksgiving. I never understood why Americans or Canadians for that matter took it so seriously, especially after all the unnecessary planning that goes into it. You first must prepare for it, days or sometimes even weeks in advance to make sure you have prepared all the ‘necessary’ food for your dinner (e.g. pumpkin pie turkey and so on). You must do this by cooking and slaving away at a hot stove for hours on end, for people who most likely won’t appreciate your tedious amount of work.
Another example of why there’s so much planning that goes into a stupid holiday like Thanksgiving is the number of people that are expected to attend a traditional good old American Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving I’ve been to, except my own, has had up to one hundred family members/friends attend, which is an outrageous number, to say the least. One is because the quantity of people who are gathering is so grand it can mean if only one person happens to be sick, the rest will become sick the morning after.
Furthermore, whoever gets stuck in the position of hosting has at least two main jobs. One is the job of cooking which I have mentioned before, and two is the washing of every single plate, fork, and or spoon that is used throughout the night. At first, this could seem to be an extremely small task, however, once you start to think about the number of dishes that can be used in less than an hour the job becomes much more grand.
With all I have written, people might expect me to hate Thanksgiving or even not celebrate it at all. Nevertheless, I never have, and I never will. There are many reasons as to why Thanksgiving is such a beloved holiday which is why I do not hate it. Yet, I do hate the so called ‘traditional’ Thanksgiving that most people think of when it comes to this holiday. Because of these so called ‘ways’ show to us by the media on how to have a perfect Thanksgiving dinner, many people find Thanksgiving brings unwanted emotions of loneliness or sadness because of reason such as not being able to celebrate it with family like other people around them can. Thanksgiving can also bring a sense of pressure to have a grand dinner even though the general population can only seek to have one. There are many more reasons someone might hate Thanksgiving, regardless this explains why it’s one my least favorite holidays of the entire year.