Oh hell no. I'd choose to not have the holiday at all if the holiday were a day of fasting.
In part because fasting at all is a completely miserable experience for me. I'll do it for medical reasons, but I totally hate even the "don't eat breakfast and get your blood drawn first thing" aspect of a cholesterol test. Fasting for longer stretches for surgery reasons is even worse.
And in part because turning Thanksgiving into a day of anti-celebration seems totally antithetical to what it traditionally means in my experience. Why punish yourself for not being appropriately grateful; why do that instead of celebrating what you do have, and making gratitude a good thing? Depriving myself of food for a day will not make me more grateful for the other 364 days of the year.
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Date: 2008-11-28 02:36 pm (UTC)In part because fasting at all is a completely miserable experience for me. I'll do it for medical reasons, but I totally hate even the "don't eat breakfast and get your blood drawn first thing" aspect of a cholesterol test. Fasting for longer stretches for surgery reasons is even worse.
And in part because turning Thanksgiving into a day of anti-celebration seems totally antithetical to what it traditionally means in my experience. Why punish yourself for not being appropriately grateful; why do that instead of celebrating what you do have, and making gratitude a good thing? Depriving myself of food for a day will not make me more grateful for the other 364 days of the year.