Happy Turkey Day!

It is that time of the year. The time for us to express our appreciations.

I am thankful for many many things in my life, which I'm sure you all have read a number of times in all my entries. I don't want to bore you out, but everything I write comes from the bottom of my heart, and today is the right time for me to say "Thanks" to everyone and everything.

I am blessed to have my wonderful family besides me no matter what. It is not always "rainbow and butterflies," but it's truly the result of compromising, of understanding each other. I am now thousands of miles away from them, but I know that they are always there in my heart, and I can always find them every time I need to. At the times when I feel down, amazingly, my family, especially my mother, always find a way to surprise me, to lift me up... It can simply be just a phone call, an email, or a text message... but it can also be a present, a package she had sent a few weeks in advance without letting me know... Many times I have received boxes full of ordinary things and note cards that brought me to tears.

Most of the people complain about how much they fight with their siblings, I am lucky to have a baby brother who not only remembers and misses me even though I have been gone 9 out of 12 months a year ever since he was 5; but he also remembers every little thing about me... my birthday, my graduation, what my majors are, what all I have achieved... The best thing is he always talks about me with admirations, always sees me as his role model, and I hope I am good enough to help him become a better person. I am now trying to perfect myself little by little everyday because of that very reason.

To me, family is my everything. I am nothing without them, I know that much.

I am thankful to have the the friends I have, both in the past and present. Friends were there to help shape me who I am today. Friends are here now to teach me how to keep perfecting myself every day. They let me know I am never alone and that there will always be shoulders for me to lean on. They are simply the strength I need.

Thank goodness I have a heart to feel and a brain to think. My heart loves with every single drop of blood it has, and my brain uses the max out of it cells. Those two irreplaceable things are there to help me make the right decisions... well, most of the time. When I am wrong, they help me get over the mistakes and move on. They also remind me of how grateful I should be for every single thing I am given in this life, the things that affect me one way or another.

I am thankful for the Sunshines I get to see every morning, and for the Moon light that keeps me away from darkness most nights. For everything that happens around me, for all the people I have seen and will see, for everything I am given... I am beyond grateful.

If you are reading this, I hope you can think of the your own wonderful things and be thankful for them. Life is always beautiful the way it is, it's just us who need to take more time to appreciate everything in life, good or bad. Things happen for a reason, good things make us happy and bad things are meant to happen to make us grow stronger and wiser.

Have a great Thanksgiving!