What are you thankful for?

Did God blessed you enough?

Marilena Alexandra Socol
3 min readNov 22, 2021

While the spirit of Thanksgiving is floating around, how do you await this holiday? An open heart, a list of blessings for which you’re going to express your gratitude?

Thanksgiving holiday isn’t just about delicious meals, playing silly games, watching parades, stuffed turkeys, mashed potatoes. It is about being thankful, gratefulness being so rare nowadays.
Given the pandemic context, it is difficult to find something to be grateful for.

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

But, you’ll always, but always, find something to be grateful for, and this holiday is meant not only to gather the family together but to make us examine our lives and start counting the things we’re thankful for.

Therefore, I consider that I’m blessed enough even if I’ve lost a lot, even if I’m not the richest person in the world, even if I’m not the healthier person in the world, even if I’m not delighting the fanciest meals in the world.

“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” Joyce Giraud

I am aware that, even though I have a lot of lacks, there are people who have even more but which are still…

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Marilena Alexandra Socol

thoughts writer, storyteller, mother, wife, and woman. For more, "READ ME"!