My family moved our family dinner to tomorrow when we were unsure - TopicsExpress

My family moved our family dinner to tomorrow when we were unsure of how serious the snow was going to get on Wednesday. As a result, I slept all day on Thanksgiving (with the exception of a couple hours here and there to eat and relieve myself). So seeing as tonight is for me as Wednesday was for most of you, I just wanted to say a few words of thanks. I am incredibly grateful for every one of my friends whom I consider chosen family. I am incredibly grateful to have been blessed with such a loving and caring actual family and of the fortune which ours has seen in our years on this Earth. I am thankful for every single person I have met in my twenty nine years walking around in this casing that is my body. Every hand shaked and hug shared has reached down to mold my soul ever so slightly to make it stronger and able to endure the winds of hate that blow across the universal plain. Every argument and tone raised in anger was a lesson in control, understanding, and perspective so that my spirit may endure the testament of time everlasting in the space between lives here. I am thankful to have so confidently found my place and purpose in this world. It gives me drive and it gives me direction. It harnesses my energy when I feel that I have lost control. And it spurs my side to persist when I feel I can no longer push on. I am thankful that music and love, which are one and the same, make themselves at home in my heart. It allows me to know that a world without hate and fear and anger is not just a fantasy but is an attainable goal. It connects us all to when we were simple oh so long ago and in doing so it makes us all the same. I am thankful to be exactly where I am doing exactly what I am doing.