thanksgiving

i was thinking about thankgiving and what people are celebrating when they celebrate thanksgiving. and how its suppose to be about the settlers and the natives kind of living together and whatnot. and it got me thinking about teaching a kid about thanksgiving, or any holiday really. its interesting to me to think that the world we live in is filled with rituals that we are just born into and we have no idea why we do them, but we do and they become a habit. then, years later, we learn about why it is we do these things. its easier to use something like a holiday as an example in this case. i was wondering what it would be like if we lived the other way around though, and i wondered what exactly that would be. and i think it would be, i suppose, making up rituals for one self and then executing them to the rules set forth. like i said, its sort of easy to use holidays as an example, but my initial holiday example can be related to all aspects of life. common social conventions and everyday life, from designating a room as a bathroom to saying hello and shaking hands when greeting someone. what if there were a world in which one lived, where they created everything for themselves instead of being born into it? i dont believe this has ever existed, truely. even before there were social conventions of being polite and intimate relationships, people were born into a hostile world where they were subject to the rules of life and death, and all the possabilities that could designate one being safe or in danger.i dont know why i thought this. i suppose i am interested in what this world would be like. this wont make sense to people. not that it matters because im the only one who reads it. but it sounds like what im saying is just stupid. of course there have to be rules that we cant even control before we ever enter any realm. small examples like say going to a dance. you are expected to arrive in certain atire, and while you are there it is expected that the atmosphere will be somewhat darker than the previous setting occupied, there will be music playing, and it is typical that one will dance at the event. this seems simple, but they are rules we inherently fall under. a much broader example is the way someone lives their life, and every single consiquence that is a result of the decisions we make, however i am only talking about man made rules, such as laws and colloquial protocol. on an even broader scale, there are the rules that are governed by science or perhaps i should say physics, both of which can be related to almost anything and everything. the rules we follow are only this way because of the planet we live on, and the existence of the planet is only because of the sun and the atmosphere, the space, and the other planets around it. and then there are rules that govern the way our solar system exists and then i suppose it goes on forever. maybe the idea that there was ever a world in which someone was born with no rules but the ones they created could be related to the notion of a god. it might be foolish to believe that in this world the person being born into the world is a person or that they were born at all, at least in the way we think. they may be relatable though. perhaps we are the rules and social convention of a person who was born into a world with no rules. just a thought. happy thanksgiving!