Why do you think people celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

Question

Do you people celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Because its a day to get together with the family, a day off of work. A day to reflect on all you have, and it really is a nice opening to the Christmas season.



Personally Thanksgiving means alot to me. When me and my sons father moved into our first apartment we had NOTHING. Our baby was on Wic formula, so feeding him was not an issue as he was covered, but all Summer and fall we had no food. I would live on a bag of Doritos and some eggs for a week at a time. We were slowly starving to death and we couldn't get food stamps because he made over the limit, but we had 20 bucks at the end of the month for food.



That Thanksgiving we were sure we couldn't even dream of doing anything. Some how we came into a lot of cash days before hand. We went out and filled out house with food and Thanksgiving supplies, and invited all our friends. We had a true feast and we were soooo extremely thankful because it was the FIRST real meal we had in MONTHS. We got to celebrate it with all our dear friends, and it meant so much to us.



From this day on, Thanksgiving has real meaning to us!

Answer 2

It's kind of the same reason you celebrate any holiday: tradition.

Sure, you can pick some random day in April for giving thanks, or an arbitrary Tuesday in May for Christmas (many scholars hold that the historical person of Jesus was born in the spring), but when you celebrate a holiday at a specific time, it invokes a spirit of nostalgia.

Every Thanksgiving is awesome to me before it even arrives, because in my mind, I'm reliving all the awesome Thanksgivings before it. Parents try like crazy to make Christmas magical for their kids because they remember the magic from when they were kids (or because they feel they missed out on that magic.)

A lot of people complain that the holidays have became too commercial, and try to avoid celebrating when everyone else does because it makes them "sheep" or whatever. But corporate -- not the business corporate, but the societal, meaning "as a group" -- days of celebration are good for society as a whole.

Answer 3

Why do you think people celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

Answer 4

It started when Abraham Lincoln, on October 3, 1863, proclaimed by Act of Congress, an annual National Day of Thanksgiving "on the last Thursday of November, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." In this Thanksgiving proclamation, our 16th President says that it is…



"…announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord… But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, by the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own… It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people…"



I believe it is true today that we have forgotten God until holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. So it is a time to reflect on God's goodness, grace and guidnance. It is a time to look around and see how many blessings abound all around us. Happy Thanksgiving!

Answer 5

I've always thought of it an a parallel of our 'Harvest Festival' only more family orientated.



No, I don't celebrate it, but I wish all our American cousins a Happy Thanksgiving.

Answer 6

We do the traditional feast.

Here's my own personal website for Thanksgiving if you want to check it out.



http://torobyte.t35.com/thanksgiving1.html



One of the pages has Thanksgiving history on it. Hope you like it.

Answer 7

Yes, I celebrate it. It's a time to remember everything you're thankful for and share a meal with family.

Answer 8

So you are able to show your thanks to people who always take care of you, or work for you.

It's a day that you thank for everything! Food, family, friends, shelter, e.t.c...



Yes, and I celebrate Thanksgiving.

Answer 9

Thanksgiving is touching directly to the skill to feed themselves because of the fact of stressful artwork and mutual participation. They have been grateful for the dinner occasion. it is particularly genuine that ecu human beings screwed the interior of sight human beings, purely like they screwed the African human beings. We could in no way ignore that actuality.

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