Thanksgiving Thoughts

Thanksgiving. Kinda a weird holiday - at least compared to the other ones. It is the only not coming from religion major holiday. It is supposed to be all about giving thanks and loving each other and all. It is really an amazing idea, in theory. My family is not American, so we don't really celebrate Thanksgiving too much. I mean we still eat a lot and everything, but that is a more recent thing and the turkey is always optional. This year, well actually more like this week, my family is not exactly on great terms with each other. My older sister all of a sudden decides to get into a huge amount of trouble, what with crashing the car and then getting into a drinking scandal at school. My parents keep fighting over what to do. I don't know, I just feel we are really disconnected recently. I mean we never get along, like any of us. Fighting is the main way we communicate with each other. Of course, there are times where we do get along and show that we do in fact love each other, but as we grow up those times seem to be few and far apart because we are all slowly disconnecting from each other and connecting to WiFi or 3G or whatever on more and more devices in more parts of our lives. I always just assumed that all families fought this much, but now I don't know. It is Thanksgiving, the holiday that is supposed to celebrate all you are thankful for, especially family, and my mom stormed out of the house a few hours ago, my dad just left again to go find her, my older sister is insisting on eating all the food because "she made it and she is sick of waiting" and my little sister is off crying about all this. I have spent most of my day in my room alone because I am so sick of everything and everyone in this house. I don't know. I just feel that we should be at least be able to pretend to be a family for one day. Happy Thanksgiving, right?