"Thank You"

I am a big fan of the "thank you". I am always grateful to those who do kind things for me and for others. For example, if a friend takes me out for lunch, I'll thank them right after lunch, thank them again before we part ways, and I usually follow up with a thank you e-mail. Most people I know are "thankful" people also.

Then there are the people that thank God for everything. They have a meal, they say grace and thank God for the food, they hit a home run in baseball, they point at the sky as if God put some power in their bat, they get sick, they look to God to cure them, God, God, God.


Thank You for this shitty meal...... 

I am all for thanking God, but can't we do it as a blanket statement as we are unwinding at the end of each day? Do we need to individually thank God for everything that happens? Is God really up there listening to billions of prayers per minute pulling the strings like we are puppets? I think not. I think there is a God but I think people are silly to believe that God is playing a role in every menial task and chore we do. It's just absurd. Our free will and our proper choices in life carve our life paths, not a prayer or thank you for everything. Perhaps I should be thankful for the following and say individual prayers for each:

Thanks for me never getting struck by lightning.
Thanks for me never getting caught by a girlfriend's Dad while I was banging her.
Thanks for me not having a small dick.
Thanks for this Mexican food, even though it will give me the runs.
Thanks for my job even though it sucks and I am mistreated.
Thanks for the inconsiderate assholes that live across the street.
Thanks for me never wetting my bed as a child.
Thanks for me never mistaking crazy glue for KY.
Thanks for me never falling through a subway grate.
Thanks for me never being castaway on a deserted island holding a volleyball.

Let's start thanking people/God when it's necessary!