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Old 12-27-2021, 11:46 AM
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Back when I first came on ToTV there were "someone" who disparaged the community, the developer etc. I asked the question to one individual with "then why do you live here?" The answer that came back was "because I like the life-style!" Really?? My take is, you can't take it both ways. Some people will complain and gripe because they lack something within themselves. They can't find satisfaction with anything. Social media is an outlet for them (anonymously) to dump. What I would say to them....start a gratitude journal. List everything you're actually grateful for.....then see if the attitude changes.
The Thanksgiving tradition. So much of this is not new. I find history interesting in that what we think are new issues are actually very old. As I've said people will always complain. Solutions posted are rare indeed. Someone mentioned Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was the one to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. I don't think anyone does not agree that our citizenry is severely divided. Imagine how divided our people were at the end of the civil war? Almost every family lost someone or something. In a brilliant yet simple act, Abe Lincoln a great leader came up with the idea of a national day of thanksgiving. No one could object to that.

As far as social media. Most are one line. Posters, assume that you fill in the MISSING details with proper information and that you know or care to know their life history while we all hide behind anonymity . It is clearly a problem with no solution