Last Thursday was Thanks Giving Day. How did you spend it, my friend? Although it's a western traditional holiday, nowadays, more and more Chinese young people like to live as western style, thus this holiday becomes well-known among Chinese. To most of them, this day means delicious turkey and a happy party at night, which you can easily have a picture in your mind.

But when it turns to one of my friends, it must be the other side of the coin. That day after that day, I read her dairy in her blog: "How rediculous it was!", she wrote, "I never thought about it could happen to me. As year's coming to its end, our company has dicided the new business plan for the coming year. According to the dicision, most of the employees have to be fired due to budget cutting down, of which two of my best friend will have this fate. And what shocked me was that I was the one who had to inform them this terrible news. At the moment my manager notified me, my mind turned bland for a few minutes and I could not move my body. I was so upset that I even had no right to refuse it. On such a day, Thanks Giving Day! Isn't it too dramatic? What a hell! What on earth shall we give thanks for?!"

At the end of this essay, she wrote down a sentence: "C'est la vie..."

To be frank, I was also shocked when I read her blog. Undoubtly, as expectation of all of us, the Thanks Giving Day should be happy and there shouldn't be any sadness. But as what she wrote, c'est la vie, this is the life, it always give us what we don't expect more than what we really want.

And let's have a look at my own Thanks Giving Day, what did I do on such a "holiday"? These days our team have to spend a lot of working time to support our Finance dept. to do the year-end audit, which made us work over time everyday during the last week. We have to prepare plenty of paperworks and we cannot stop the current projects which must be finished before the end of November. On Thanks Giving Day, I worked until 10:00pm in the office without eating anything when others were enjoying there feast. I was so tired both mentally and physically. That's my Thanks Giving Day, just like a nightmare!

Then, turn back to the question, what really worth of our thanks? The whole life seams dark and painful and full of sorrow. I asked myself this question over and over. Finally, I thought whatever life give, it is really a cherish experience, because it makes me unique and I could learn a lot from many aspects when things happen to me, different experiences make me different from others. From this point of view, life itself is treasure. No matter sadness or happyness, if we could both enjoy the experiences, I think that is the meaning why we live in this world.

I wrote a comment in my friend's blog, said that" Life is the best gift we get, everything happen to us must affect us and make our life brilliant. For example, after your colleagues were fired, they will find another brighter future for their careers. All these things have its internal reason. So the one who need our thanks is life itself. If we keep our mode in being thankful to everything we meet, the whole life should be much happier. And in that way, I do believe we will have a better life."
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