Thanksgiving alone

[bretay]

sorry you will be alone...enjoy your day...and your pets

[dsosnowski06]

Doesn't sound lame at all.  Giving back to the community is beautiful and should be comforting to you knowing that you care to help others.  Sometimes I wish I could skip the whole family thing as some of us really don't see each other during the year and it all seems fake at the holidays

[surveypro2016]

I've been alone at Thanksgiving before. It's not as bad as it sounds. lol You can do what you want, eat what you want, watch what you want, etc. It's like a "Holiday" from people. It can be liberating!

[madeara]

When my mom was first  divorced, we had a similar Thanksgiving.  It was very quiet and  peaceful.  I wish you all the best.  I will keep you in my prayers.

[makeblessed]

It sounds fine and it is admirably that you want to give back to others by volunteering and giving to others, while you may not have your biological family around you will be spending time with others; who I am sure are very appreciative of your time and kind hear to serve others; Enjoy your day!!!

[stretch1967]

I'm going to cook dinner. Who ever comes comes.

[michele2042]

So I'm going to be spending Thanksgiving alone this year. Not my first Thanksgiving alone, but my first one in awhile. I plan on making all the regular Thanksgiving foods and eating them in front of the tv. Spending some quality time with my pets, then heading down to a local LGBT homeless shelter to help prepare their Thanksgiving dinner and clean up afterwards. A part of me is sad not to have a family to spend the holiday with (I'm recently divorced and my own family doesn't get along with me very well), but I'm also kinda relieved to get to do what I want this year. Eat when I want, chill with my cats when I want, help out and give back to the community. Looking for support here -- please tell me this doesn't sound like a totally lame Thanksgiving. Lol

They have a homeless shelter specifically for gay people? How is that not racist against straight people?

As for being lame - if you don't have family then you do what ever you want.  No, it isn't lame.  Not every one has a big family to spend the holidays with.  If you remember the holidays have the highest suicide rate of any time of the year.  And a lot of it I think it because people get depressed when they are alone.  I don't know why though if you are alone the rest of the year what difference does it make?

How can you possibly say "How is that not racist against straight people"?     

[shawnix]

I was thinking the same thing  ..lol

[linderlizzie]

My youngest son takes food to homeless and elderly people on Thanksgiving every year. He lives out of state from me. He came home this week to celebrate an early Thanksgiving with us this year. Yay!

So I believe you are doing a great thing helping others on the holiday and not worrying about yourself being alone. Good for you. A selfless act. 

[snuggleycutejc]

And I had that story before...I did the TV dinner and my tv show.

[killers2]

I will also be alone because I have to work.  My family will be away in Staten Island but I will enjoy the peace and maybe eat dinner at a friend's house. 

[freedavis]

alone on thanksgivning sound peaceful and enjoyable

[mamatygress]

If it's what makes you happy, and that's what you want to do, it's all good.

[dsawan]

Nothing wrong with doing it alone. I work a lot so for me its a day off to rest and spend time at home with my pet. Family does not seem to care either like aunts uncles cousins like when my mother was alive. So please, dont feel bad at all.

[sbenkoski]

I've spent 10 years of alone holidays! It works well coz i get to have ALL the left overs !!