Tomorrow, I'll be going up to San Francisco to spend the holiday with my family. When I think back on last Thanksgiving, and what my concerns were, they seem incredibly trivial. As I recall, I was concerned that a particular advertising campaign I had been working on would close before the end of the month so I could get commission on it. (It did, and I got paid. Ironically, the ad campaign never actually ran to completion.) I was also concerned about a new manager of mine who I didn't particularly like. With all that has happened since, and what concerns me on a daily basis now, I wish that I could be troubled with things like that.
I am so blessed to have my family. Family is the most important thing in life, bar none. Without the support and love of my family, I would be nothing. I love them so much.
I have great friends who put up with me and who humor me, who accept me for who I am and who keep coming back despite my best efforts to make them go away. I am lucky to have an amazing medical support system centered on my amazing oncologist. I have neighbors who really care about me and who, when they see me on the elevator or in the hall, always ask how I am and if there is anything I need.
I appreciate the readers of this blog, if I've met you in person, electronically through e-mail, or haven't met you at all. The fact that you even give a shit about my life and read my self centered updates is something I appreciate very much and certainly don't take for granted.
Obviously this year has been hard and has many ups and downs. Thanksgiving is a time to look back, reflect, and appreciate what means most. Not the material things, although I am blessed there too... but family, friends, and random people who connect with me and are interested in what I have to say. To all I say, thanks. And to all I say, may you have a joyous Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate it.
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Ben,
On a day when feeling my own Thankfulness for all I have and the wellness of my family, after reading your blog, I feel like I could walk on water.
For so long you just wanted to fit in and now at this crossroad in your life to be Thankful for all those that love and adore you, means so much more than just fitting in. You have become a intricate part of all our lives, and when I say I am thankful, its especially because I am able to learn so much from you.
I guess everyone think their families are wonderfully terrible or terribly wonderful, or just plain shit, but you do truly have a family filled with love that cannot be matched. And your gratefulness to them, for them can be felt by us all that love them as much as you.
I am thankful that you have been in my life and that you are there now. And, I love you.
Gayle
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