The American Thank$giving

America celebrates a great national holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. This day is set aside to give you a day off from work if your employer observes the holiday. Those who have to work might get the holiday as a floating holiday or extra pay.

The intent of the holiday is to reflect on the blessings in your life being thankful for what you have. Spending quality time with family and friends.

The evolving new Thank$giving is becoming the malls and shops are open with bargain sales. I'm not satisfied. I want more more more. Keep my dinner warm I'm out of here mall bound till I drop.

I love sales too. They have this great invention called a website. Buy online at home and send a message to all the greedy retailers making their employees work and disrupting family quality time by tempting people with bargains to leave the house and shop on this special holiday.

I dedicate this blog post to my two special friends that are working overseas faraway from their families. One is in Shanghai doing domestic work and the other is in Kuwait working as a seamstress. They both have no choice because they can't find decent employment in their country to adequately help support their families. They are tough and survivors that will make sacrifices and be abused by employers in these countries with no enforced labor laws. They are the modern day salves.

The next time you leave your place of employment be thankful that you can leave for the day and not have to ask permission to leave. These two women work around the clock and have only time to sleep and then it's back to work. They only get a little time off to do personal business.

I Have Power!

What is power? It's used for good and bad. When you receive power it should come with an instruction manual on the proper use of power. Power is temporary or it can last for years. How you use power defines your character. Most times power is not earned the right way. Earning power and using it in a responsible way is a self discipline to not let your ego get the best of you. 

I have had the fortune of meeting many people with power and they are just like a regular person they have nothing to prove, but be a responsible nice person with power. I have had the experience of ego maniacs that received power and it became a drug addiction to feed off the power.

When your time comes to have some form of power use it in a responsible respectable way. Treat everyone the way you would like to be treated. Always keep that in mind.