{"id":11943,"date":"2018-11-08T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:37:07","slug":"the-state-of-the-sa-thankful-for-the-spit-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2018\/11\/08\/the-state-of-the-sa-thankful-for-the-spit-take\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the SA | Thankful for the spit take"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>veryone has that one Thanksgiving. You know the one \u2014 the one that your cousins, whom you don\u2019t even talk to that much anyway, can\u2019t wait to reference every year. Well, here\u2019s mine.<\/p>\n

It was the fall of 2013. I was 16 years old in the prime of my life and my awkward stage. My\u00a0 cousin, Will, had brought his new girlfriend to Thanksgiving for the first time. Everything was going well. The meal was prepared, the parade had been watched and it was time to feast. The children\/teenagers\/young adults assembled around their own table \u2014 tables we\u2019ll probably always be relegated to. I ate normally. Then, the fateful moment came. I had just slid a monstrous spoonful of sweet corn right into my mouth. My cousin chose that exact moment to make a joke. Corn spewed from my mouth with the force of a New Faithful. It would have been OK \u2014 it really would have been. But one single kernel appeared to grow wings, and \u2014 plop \u2014 landed in the new girlfriend\u2019s fresh cup of sweet tea.<\/p>\n

To be honest, at times throughout the last few weeks I have felt as I did that day. It seems like sometimes when things go wrong \u2014 something sacred in the flow of daily life has been tampered with \u2014 just as an embarrassing memory can ruin a Thanksgiving. After we\u2019re finished with\u00a0daylight savings, it feels like we tumble into the holidays and the final salvaging of grades.<\/p>\n

So, the semester is winding down, and this is my last column for now, so here\u2019s what I\u2019ve got: let\u2019s choose thankfulness. I want to choose it, and I want you to as well. Let\u2019s thank everyone who helps us and even the poor situations which shape us. Let\u2019s thank our friends and our professors, and even the people who we wouldn\u2019t normally thank. Perhaps if we do this, we\u2019ll look over our mistakes with kindness.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it\u2019s just \u201ceh.\u201d Let\u2019s fix it. Let\u2019s make these few weeks awesome. And if a corn spit take is what it takes to be awesome, maybe it\u2019s called for.<\/p>\n

Hallie Hite is a guest writer for The Bison. She can be contacted at\u00a0<\/b>sa@harding.edu.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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