My experience of this Thanksgiving fit into the anti-body vs body centered practices of our culture. The food pleasure supplement completely dominated and focus of the event. This is always the case with thanksgiving. Everyone from the family makes some food and brings it to one place and everyone has a huge feast. No one worries about what they're eating they're not worrying about their body but just eating and connecting with each other. The food wasn't completely unhealthy so in a way it was both anti-body and body centered practices.
This year there wasn't really many other pleasures practiced. Usually the family is more active and doing fun things but this year everyone just sat around. Some of the family all sat together and watched a movie. The others just sat around in other places and did things like talking, playing pool and watching TV. I think the rainy day out kind of affected everyone. Maybe if it was a sunny nice day out everyone's mood would've been different and everyone would have been more active.
The only background element related to illness and dying I could think of was the lack of movement. Like I said it was really rainy and dark out so I think this may have affected everyone where maybe people would've been out in the back yard or playing basketball or going for a walk. For me personally I felt good, I had a lot of energy and was happy as could be. The weather wasn't affecting my mood. I feel like there wasn't really any relation to illness and death because this is a holiday and everyone is getting together and having fun, so no one is trying to focus on negative things instead everyone is happy. Overall it was nothing special but a gooooood Thanksgiving none the less.
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