It is right around the corner for the time of giving thanks which is approaching tremendously quickly. Students get ready to take a break from the hardworking, stressful and long nights of schooling. They will began to flee and go feast with their families on Thanksgiving break. Students will say their prayers and give their thanks to the people they love. This time around Cabrini students were asked are they generally happier during this time of year? And what are they most grateful for? Several people pointed out their views and explanations on why they are and are not.
“I’m happy but I don’t think I am genuinely happy. There is a difference,” said Megan Martinez, psychology and philosophy major.
Martinez is someone who does a lot of critical thinking with a major such as psychology and philosophy. She digs deep about her feelings and backs it up by reason. “I am most happy and thankful around this time of the year for being alive. If you think about the amount of deaths that happen every second, minute, hour, day and month it can be you.”
For example, it is saddening that a former student of Cabrini university, also a close friend, Deshawn Price Jr passed away a few weeks ago. It led Martinez to the realization of having gratitude for what is present, because “anything can happen to you at any given moment,” she said.
Sure Thanksgiving is about eating but it also about thanking for what we do and don’t have in this world. There are people who are unfortunately gone that would not be around for the holidays, seasons, gatherings and opportunities and general. Prayers go out to the Price family and the many laughs and smiles Deshawn brought to people’s faces.
“I am given the opportunity to experience such events,” Martinez said.
Another student talked about why they are not happy around this time of the year. The fall season is where leaves change, die and falls from the trees.
Emely Taveras, marketing major, feel as though this time around she is not but thankful. Just like Martinez, Taveras lost her grandfather on thanksgiving day two years ago in 2017. The news she received that day about her grandfather still lasts to this day on why she is not happy this time of the year. However, she is thankful for Thanksgiving because it is time where her family can come together. They can join each other company and be there for one Another.
“I love being with my family,” Taveras said.
“I am thankful for having shelter because around this time it is getting cold. A lot of people do not have homes to come too,” Enajah Williams said. She is a business management major who has gratitude for having life. She has sympathy for the ones who cannot eat and the ones who cannot spend time with their families.
