what does thanksgiving mean to me

Thanksgiving to me doesnt mean alot because i am a jehovas witness and we dont celebrate holidays in our religion. but in my personal opinion to me thanksgiving is when a whole family gets together and gets to visit with eachother over a long time of being absent from eachother and get to just be with eachother. i dont think that thanksgiving is necisarily about the turkey and stuff, to me it is more about the people that you are with instead of the food you are eating. i think it is great when familys just go out to wherever they want for their thanksgiving meal and just hangout and be with eachoter instead of worrying about the food. i think that thanksgiving can go two of ways though. i think it can either be amazing and and a great family experience for everyone or it could go teribly south and create a gigantic fight or rise a bunch of drama. i have heard storys of both sittuations. one was with my friend justin and he said that his family from all over came down to his house and he just ordered pizza and other things that he knew that they liked to eat and they just spent the next couple days together and hung out with eachother doing anything that they could think of that would be fun and would just do it. no question or hesitations. he sats that he looks foresrd to thanksgiving every year because he knows that that is the kind of experience that he will have. But the flip side of that is the example that I heard from my girlfriend Cassie. she says that she dreads thanksgiving and family functions because they always end up fighting and bringing up dirt one eachother and throwing it in eachothers face's.