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To all my American friends1:


I like Thanksgiving. I like the psychological concept of being thankful. I am thankful for the following:
  1. Living in a great apartment. I love my place. It's set up the way I want it, it has enough space for me, three budgies, many books, and a zillion comic books; it's friendly and bright. I've had fannish friends walk in for the first time and say, "You can tell a fan lives here." I like that. I love my tasteful fandom-du-jour decor in the bathroom. My decorative harp in the living room. My view of a maple tree outside the window.

  2. Living in a great city. I might prefer London or New York for the theatre, or Italy for the art, and anywhere for the weather, but Ottawa is a lovely place to live: enough of a city to have whatever I need of libraries, bookstores, areas to walk, with decent public transport and a sense of history. Besides, I live right beside the prettiest canal in the world.

  3. Living in a good country. Canada isn't exactly perfect, but it's got a lot of the right ideas.

  4. Having enough to eat and a roof over my head. Basic.

  5. My friends.

  6. Fandom.

  7. Books. Especially the world of slash. Especially Torchwood, Doctor Who, Dunnett novels, Bujold novels, The Professionals, The Lord of the Rings, and all those other joys.

  8. The net, including LJ and the Dunnett mailing lists. They keep me sane when they don't drive me crazy.

  9. Certain actors, writers, and artists. If you've been reading this LJ, you know their names.

  10. Being who I am: human, female, Canadian, bisexual, a writer, a fan, a history-lover, a budgie-owner.


~ ~ ~

1 This picture was taken from this site.


Date: 2007-11-22 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wijsgeer.livejournal.com
I am presently well enough to to dwell on the bad things (like lack of money and the state of the world and that I never ever seem to get better and that I can't help my sister and my close friends who are depressed themselves and so on). But good things, they just don't feel good, even though my mind tells me they are. Guess you know what I mean. I am very fed up with myself, mood going down once again like that. Doing my best to hang on.

Date: 2007-11-22 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Yup. Sometimes all you can do is hang on. I remember well when the good things weren't good.

Date: 2007-11-23 12:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] silverwhistle.livejournal.com
The good things feel good, but are not as good as they could be. I still have no job, no material security, &c., and I feel pretty sick when other people (in the guise of "thankfulness" – to what?) go bragging how much better their lives are. I'd like to smash their faces in. Another LJ post made me feel almost homicidal at its smugness. it reminds me of a time when I was very low, and a friend was phoning me up about how well she was doing, and how she'd got her own TV documentary series on Scottish history. She was too self-absorbed and insensitive to understand why I would burst into tears after we'd spoken.

Date: 2007-11-23 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
For myself, a sense of thankfulness makes me feel better - even though my life, in many important aspects, is pretty rotten. I don't do it to hurt others (and I'm sorry if I did), I do it because it's a good thing psychologically.

Date: 2007-11-23 04:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] silverwhistle.livejournal.com
I don't do it to hurt others (and I'm sorry if I did), I do it because it's a good thing psychologically.

It wasn't you: I know we're not in too far different circumstances (save you, at least, have a job, though not one worthy of your talents). And I agree, it can be good to combat a tendency to depression. No, what I hate is people who seem to rub your nose in your own failure without thinking about what they're doing.

Date: 2007-11-23 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
we're not in too far different circumstances

Yes; I rather feel we are suffering similar fates in parallel.

Thoughtlessness is never a good thing; it nevertheless seems to come easily to some people.

Date: 2007-11-23 07:09 pm (UTC)
ext_120533: Deseine's terracotta bust of Max Robespierre (Default)
From: [identity profile] silverwhistle.livejournal.com
When a festive occasion more or less demands outbursts of smugness, it's time to duck and hide, I think.

The main things I had to be smug about today were getting a pair of shiny black ankle-boot wellies and (for 50p!) a Mercedes-Benz logo'd double-walled travel-mug (like a flask, but large mug-sized) from charity shops. The wellies are cute and practical; the mug is also practical (especially as I have a long train journey coming up when I go to my parents'), and also fits one of my fandoms.

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