Thanksgiving Orphans and Thinking Differently from Everyone – Thoughts from November 19 to 28, 2023

November 19, 2023

I found out from Patti that we might be orphans on Thanksgiving. Hopefully, it will keep me from over stuffing myself like I normally do. Except for my last two days off, I’m down in my weight. Holidays have become mainly about eating and drinking more than you normally would. All the major holidays revolve around indulging in special holiday treats. Thanksgiving, Christmas, the 4^th of July, Easter, and Halloween have their own foods attached to them. If there’s no food associated with a holiday, it’s not a proper holiday. Thanksgiving is the one holiday that seems only about food. We’re thankful mainly for all the food we get to eat.

November 26, 2023

I gained about five pounds during my Thanksgiving time off. I had the regular turkey meal, wine, and my form of dessert. Patti doesn’t like dessert, so she had nothing after the meal. I improvised a dessert out of chocolate and almond butter. Oh yeah, I also took a sleeve of Patti’s mini donuts. Only two of the four days I had off were truly debaucherous. I gained the weight mostly in those two days. We watched several movies on our days off. One of them was The Whale. It was really good and emotional. After watching it, I controlled myself. They should show it to help people control their eating. Emotional eating is one health problem that doesn’t get talked about enough.

One problem I have on my days off (besides eating unhealthy things) is not drinking enough water. If I work outside, I usually remember to bring water with me. Inside, I forget about water most of the time. I usually make it to the end of the night and notice I didn’t drink enough water. This is too late to drink a bunch of water to make up for it. It’s also not healthy to do that. I have water everywhere I go inside, but I still forget it. Unless I make it a part of my routine, I won’t remember to do it continuously throughout the day. Of course, the major problem on my days off is sitting on our squishy couch and not moving much of the time.

November 28, 2023

I’ve pointed out how I think differently from other people. I was just wondering if anyone thinks even close to the way I do. The person would have to be an atheist, against competition, care about strangers, dislike violence, and consider happiness and health as top priorities. Any of those things eliminates most people. The combination of them just might eliminate everyone. In much of the world, this kind of thinking would be unsustainable. You couldn’t survive if people knew you had these thoughts. Living in the U.S., I have freedoms that many places don’t. Freethinkers are a privileged group of people. Privileged people are not known for their ability to look outside their privileged point of view.

Being unique is fun until you realize how unrelatable you are to other people. There’s no group I could join that I would feel completely comfortable in. As soon as they have a live event, I would be out. When someone expressed pride in being a member of the group, that would end my membership. The moment rules were in place that excluded some people from it, I would exclude myself. I’m not unique except in my thinking. I’m average physically. No one looks at me and says, “Now that guy’s unique.” They rarely notice me at all. I’m glad I look normal so I can talk to people and introduce my special brand of thinking one thought at a time. I’ve learned what thoughts I can share with people without freaking them out.

My thoughts are full of judgements. I rarely judge people to their face, but my thoughts are full of judgements about them. We all do this. Most of us can keep our judgements to ourselves. People who can’t keep their judgments from coming out get labeled with mental illnesses. How you behave and how you think are very different things. People get locked up for their behavior, but only people who write their thoughts out get judged for them. The only time I get in trouble is when my behavior matches my inner thoughts. This is when I’m being too honest for my own good.