Last weekend we celebrated Thanksgiving in Canada.

Don’t you think it is quite funny that the holiday, which makes this continent so different, is rooted deeply into dark time of “great” Henry the VIII and his pathetic search for love, lust and dominancy? I guess we can say that it proves the theory that something good can come out of something horrible.

It is a holiday not overly popular around the world, however the idea is filled with grace and opportunity to look at each other with love and gratitude. The fact that this holiday has been transformed over time from gratitude for the harvest to the bigger, widely appreciated holiday of appreciation of everything.

It is also interesting to realize that Thanksgiving is – I think – the only holiday on North American continent when there are no gifts! Everyone focuses on forgiveness and gratitude! It is such a relief to see that we are still able to share love, appreciation, friendship and gratitude without giving or exchanging material “things” (objects).

In Poland, from where I came to Canada 25 years ago, we use to having something similar to Thanksgiving event dedicated to celebration the end of harvesting season and expressing gratitude for the goods received from Mother Earth. It wasn’t anything like the holiday here, in Canada. In Poland, we would celebrate in on Sunday (so work day off) and it took a form of rather spectacular event with sport displays, feasts etc. People would watch it on TV and then forget about it. Oh well, just a government show off!

When I came to Canada, for long time I couldn’t get to really celebrating Thanksgiving, being still “mentally contaminated” with the old thinking pattern around this subject. But with time, I finally started to behold it as an opportunity to show gratitude to all and for everything. Now, I love it!

I think we all need more incentives to be grateful. It is soo needed by all of us. Appreciation or gratitude is soo easy to give and soo hard to receive. Do we have time to pose and ponder? Some of us travel extensively around the world running from city to city and country to country without having time to observe the beauty of life there, fauna and flora, customs, traditions and art. We come back with hundreds of pictures which are never watched again. Kind of “is done” attitude. Don’t get me wrong – I am not much better than the individual I just described. I wouldn’t be able to ponder upon it now, if it were not my problem as well.

Thank to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics, we know today that the amount of people needed to change any given situation is equal to square root of 1 percent of all people concerned. So if we would like to change the future of our Planet, we need only (?!) above 8.5 hundreds of people thinking the way we want our Planet to be (presuming that there is about 7,3 billion of people on the planet Earth right now – square root of 1 % is 8544).

Isn’t it appealing concept?