Alone on Thanksgiving

Anybody who knows me knows the fact that I love Los Angeles. All my friends and family members live there. It's not a good place to live, in my opinion, but having fun with friends and family is like the cherry on top of an ice cream. I love my family members and I was hoping to spend Thanksgiving day with them. However, on such short notice I realized on Tuesday that my mother would be working this week. So, she told me that I could go ahead and go but there was this really sad tone to her voice. I decided to ignore the tone even though my heart was racing and I was noncommittal about visiting LA. Just yesterday, I woke up around 6:00 a.m. deciding whether to go to LA or not. We had decided that my aunt would pick me up at 12:00 so we could begin our 4-hour road trip earlier. I had my suitcase packed and took a long look at it until a voice in my head said "don't go". You couldn't believe how much I had waited for Thanksgiving to approach in order to visit my relatives but the sympathy that I shared for my mother was really strong. My mother urged me to go but I just really didn't want to leave her alone on Thanksgiving. So, I bid my aunt and grandmother good-bye and headed off to school. Giving up this perfect opportunity to spend some time with my dear family members did not bother me all that much until this morning. I woke up realizing that I would be alone for Thanksgiving. Just my mother and my grandfather and started to feel really depressed. However, so far it's actually going great. So, alone on Thanksgiving should not develop into a negative connotation because it's not so bad....