Thanksgiving is coming, and my wife just informed me we are going to the outlaw’s house. So she has ruined my day, this day, and Thanksgiving Day.
To be perfectly blunt, they don’t like me. They don’t like me because my views, both political and personal differ from theirs. Not to be political, but just to be on point here, politically I’m to the right, and they are far left. Personally, I’ve always worked for myself, been in business for 45 years doing various things. They believe working for a company that offers benefits is the only way to go. They don’t like that I smoke or eat meat. They are vegans and vegetarians. They hate it when I defend my right to offer another opinion. They do not like the fact that I am a historian, who has studied American history and that I happen to disagree with the teachings of most of academia, and so called professional teachers and professors.
My mother-n-law, (the wicked witch of the north), my sisters-law, my brother-n-law, his mother, his sisters and brothers, my nieces on my wife’s side don‘t like me,(Ya, can you believe that? My young nieces.), they don’t like me because I dance to the beat of a different drummer. And they will all be there at the Thanksgiving Day table.
What I think is sad is that I have never lost a friendship based on a difference of opinion. And, I would never think of ostracizing a family member, on either side because of a difference of opinion.
So on thanksgiving, I will sit quietly by myself, with a few glasses of wine, and hopefully play with my three year old granddaughter who is too young to form opinions.
And on Thanksgiving Day, when you are all enjoying yourselves with family members, have a pipefull, and or a drink for 'ole Indiana here. I don't care what your drinking, or smoking either.
To be perfectly blunt, they don’t like me. They don’t like me because my views, both political and personal differ from theirs. Not to be political, but just to be on point here, politically I’m to the right, and they are far left. Personally, I’ve always worked for myself, been in business for 45 years doing various things. They believe working for a company that offers benefits is the only way to go. They don’t like that I smoke or eat meat. They are vegans and vegetarians. They hate it when I defend my right to offer another opinion. They do not like the fact that I am a historian, who has studied American history and that I happen to disagree with the teachings of most of academia, and so called professional teachers and professors.
My mother-n-law, (the wicked witch of the north), my sisters-law, my brother-n-law, his mother, his sisters and brothers, my nieces on my wife’s side don‘t like me,(Ya, can you believe that? My young nieces.), they don’t like me because I dance to the beat of a different drummer. And they will all be there at the Thanksgiving Day table.
What I think is sad is that I have never lost a friendship based on a difference of opinion. And, I would never think of ostracizing a family member, on either side because of a difference of opinion.
So on thanksgiving, I will sit quietly by myself, with a few glasses of wine, and hopefully play with my three year old granddaughter who is too young to form opinions.
And on Thanksgiving Day, when you are all enjoying yourselves with family members, have a pipefull, and or a drink for 'ole Indiana here. I don't care what your drinking, or smoking either.
