A thanksgiving state of mind?

All of mankind is born with needs. Our mothers are the first with whom we bond in order to have those needs met. In a general sense, we become thankful for the love and nourishment we receive, and we return that love with more need. Eventually though we must become accountable, and when that happens we realize how much that love and nourishment meant to our early life. True there are abusive relationships that make for a negative result, but that does not stop our need. It is our need for love, acceptance and the companionship of like minded people that then begins to drive that need.
As we mature there dawns on us the realization of a state of thankfulness that we derive from these associations. We may not become aware of it at the time but it will manifest itself in our continued need for and satisfaction of that need being met by those with whom we choose to associate. Thank God for our friends. If our state of mind is healthy and we are in right relationship with God, (not having the narcissistic mindset you so aptly described). We will begin to realize that our whole life is to be lived in a thanksgiving state of mind. There was nothing in God’s creation that Adam and Eve were not to be thankful for, Even Jesus when he was baptized and taken into the wilderness to be tempted, exhibited a thankful state of mind, that he had the scriptures to bolster his resistance to Satan. Was that a test from God, or an example to be copied? Are we also tempted in similar fashion? Thank God for his leading. (not into temptation). And for that we are thankful. As well, God knowing that failure is one of our options, provided a way of salvation for each of us, through our Savior Jesus Christ. And for that we are thankful. In fact there is no person place or thing to be encountered in this lifetime of struggle, trial and error, that we as God’s Children can say that we were not thankful for? Even Lazarus in his pitiful state of life, shared the Joy of it all. When it was all said and done. I believe he too had a thanksgiving state of mind

the tail is wagging the dog

   It now appears that the protests at Missouri University were based on a bunch of lies.  Now this has led to a similar "non issue" protest going on in Ithica NY.   In other copycat incidents we have students protesting because a professor refused to cancel an exam.  Muslim students demanding that crucifixes and other religious icons be removed from not only Church sponsored schools, but schools in general.  Of course students being penalized for publically exhibiting a love for country and/or religion has been going on for some time.  Recently a marathon runner was stripped of his 3rd place metal because he had a Bible verse written on his head band.  People (sane people) are up in arms about this growing epidemic at schools all across the country.  Why? they want to know.   The answer is pretty simple, every time our leftist administrators yield to the idiotic demands of liberal socialist students, it spreads all across the country like wild fire.  If students at one school force a president to resign, extorsion demands rise up almost immediately everywhere.
     Where are our leaders today?  Where can we find a school that says to a group of football players, "go ahead and refuse to play.  You can kiss your scholarships goodbye.  Now move out of the tax funded dorm you're living in, quit eating tax funded food at the tax funded school cafeteria and get off the tax funded campus cause you've just been expelled.  You want to run a school?  Well it isn't going to be this one, so you may want to go build your own school someplace else.  Good luck with that."
     Where do these mush brained students get these kinds of ideas?  Where do they learn to be anti-America, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-constitution, and non-contributing, disgusting socialists?  Guess where.  They learned all this social dogma from today's modern, progressive indoctrination centers beginning from K-1 thru college.   Now we have an educational system run by teachers, professors, deans, superintendents, principals  and school presidents who are all products of a socialist liberal education.  The journalists covering the stories, the judges ruling on lawsuits, and the lawmakers are mostly all of this ideology.  The Marxist Democrats were smart.  Decades ago they began taking over the educational system, the judicial system, the entertainment industry and worst of all the "main stream" news/information industry.  The disaster that we have going on in our tax funded schools today is the result of this takeover which began in the days of FDR.  And college age voters want to vote for Bernie?  Of course they do.
     And the real fuel that ignites the fire?  Political Correctness.  Another product from the early days of the Soviet Union under Stalin.  Our socialist liberals swarmed to it like bees to honey.  Shut up any and all who disagree with their policies and ideology. The final justice will come when todays social media addicted younger generation wakes up and realizes that they're the ones who are going to have to live in the America they've helped create.
     It's past time that we started putting conservatives back into leadership roles.  The democrats have proven once again that Marxism (socialism) doesn't work.  We need a president who will clean out the education dept, the EPA, the judicial system, the Pentagon (among others) and refurbish them with people who will restore the American spirit, culture and values.  Right now I'm thinking Cruz, Trump or perhaps Carson.  We don't need any more "moderates" who continuously cave to liberal democrat demands