Alright, I'm not going mince words here: Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Now, normally I prefer to avoid directly and bluntly stating my opinions, especially when those opinions are based on my own personal experience. It makes it harder to properly convey my point to an audience if it's based on personal experience, something no one else shares, as opposed to conveying it through facts, which are generally applicable regardless of personal experience, but for this piece, my reasoning will mostly be based off of my personal experiences. With that out of the way, allow me to discuss why I dislike this holiday so much.
Okay, so... as we all know, Thanksgiving is usually a holiday in which the extended family comes together to meet, catch up, and eat. Now, my family is... a little complicated, but as a result, I was literally the only child in the house every single Thanksgiving, the youngest adult probably being around twenty-two when I was around six. Now, it is true that the adults would attempt to converse with me, but the generation gap often made these conversations rather... awkward, so I usually relegated myself to a quiet room with my handheld video games for most of the day. Sometimes, this was not that big of a problem, but there were years where I was really into a console game at the time, and having to be stuck in a house without those consoles and everyone hogging the televisions trying to watch Football was rather irritating. It did not really get better as I became a teenager, either, as things such as Wi-Fi started becoming a part of mainstream gaming and I obtained my first laptop as I quickly discovered that the house lacked Wi-Fi. "What about the food, though?" some may ask. Well, I have a problem with that, too.
As odd as it may sound, I have never enjoyed the traditional food served at Thanksgiving. Cranberries, turkey, potatoes, and such? I have never been a big fan of any of them, and being forced to consume that food definitely did not make me think any more fondly of the holiday. For me, Thanksgiving always felt like a waste of a vacation day where I could not even play some of the video games that I really looked forward to playing, and I am forced to eat food that I do not find particularly appetizing. Not to mention, I have always found turkeys to be a rather dull holiday mascot, but that's just getting nit-picky. Recently, due to events that I would rather not discuss, we no longer see the extended family on Thanksgiving anymore, but we still do eat the traditional food, but now the holiday has gone from being irritating to having almost as little of an effect on my day as President's Day or Marting Luther King Jr. I don't know whether that's a good thing or not, but at least I got to play my Wii U during Thanksgiving this year.
Disclaimer: I do not dislike my extended family; they are good people, and I am definitely lucky that I don't have to deal with any major feuds between anyone, but the generation gap between my extended family and me, like I said, made it difficult to really establish a proper relationship with any of them.
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