Always Thankful

There was a trend going around Facebook where people were putting up what they were thankful for once everyday.  With it being November and Thanksgiving being in this month, it makes sense.  People covered the normal stuff:  family, friends, god, employment, etc.  They all kind of run together in my mind.  So what am I thankful for?

I'm thankful for being opinionated.  Sounds selfish, I know.  That's why I wrote it.  Opinions are like rifles, there are many like it, but this one is mine.  So why is it important?  Without it, I would not write.  I would not have this blog and would not have an outlet for the thoughts that I have.

I'm thankful for sports.  The sports teams I cheer for do not always win, but I am not a bandwagon fan, but I cheer for them anyways.  If I stopped following the Tigers after the 2003 or the Lions after 2008, what kind of fan would I be?  If anything I have learned in watching these two teams play horribly for such a long time, is that they can eventually turn it around.  The Lions made the playoffs last year (not so much this year), and the Tigers not winning the division on a yearly basis is now considered a bad season.  It use to be that if they ended at or near .500 it was a good season, but that isn't good enough anymore.  I want a World Series!  A Super Bowl would be cool too, but they are way off and there are too many good teams that need to get real bad real fast.  And of course, I am thankful for the twenty one year playoff streak that the Red Wings have.  Winning is the rule, not the exception.  

I'm thankful for my family and friends.  I love you all.  I'm not making this an emotional post, let's move on.

I'm thankful for my heritage.  Not only because it has given me a strong liver to deal with the alcohol I enjoy, but for the history of questioning authority.  Be it the Irish or the Native American in me, both groups have dealt with invaders in their homelands.  They have stood up against them, even though we all know how it ended for the Native Americans.  The Irish have the Protestants in Northern Ireland, and 'the Troubles' are well documented.  The Irish fought hard to get the United Kingdom off their island, but in the end it didn't work.  The point is, both groups fought for what they believed in.  They made their voices heard.