With this Thanksgiving rapidly approaching I thought it would be best to turn away from the recent negativity circulating our media sources. After a year of monumental events our world has seen, we should focus more on all of the positives that have occurred since last Thanksgiving. Besides the health of our families and success of those close to us, there is a bunch to be thankful for this year.

You saw the crucifixion of hundreds over Facebook because of the debate, which made your bad days a little bit better.

We were introduced to dessert lasagna

Chewbacca mom made America laugh just because she was laughing

This little girl got really excited meeting Pope Francis (https://vine.co/80c4bef4-0513-4847-8c5e-01c5861829...)

Jimmy Kimmel gave us yet another funny "Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy"

We watched Jojo finally find her future husband

This meme blessed our timelines

Leo finally won his Oscar

The first flower was grown in space

Cuba reopened its borders

Pokemon Go got people increasing their daily steps by thousands for the summer

Michael Phelps became the world's most decorated Olympian

Ari Schultz became the youngest baseball recruit to Assumption College at age 4

Obama and Joe Biden's love was fully publicized during their last few months together.

A ton of people got to see color for the first time because of color blind correction glasses

200 strangers attended Serina Vine's, a WWII veteran, funeral, who had no family

PANDAS ARE NO LONGER ENDANGERED

One tortoise, Diego, is the ultimate player and saved his entire species from extinction by single handedly having 800 offspring

Finding Dory came out

The SNL election coverage had everyone rolling the entire election

The Cubs broke their 108-year wait for a World Series Title

India had 800,000 volunteers planted 50 million trees in 24 hours, breaking a world record

The Ozone layer is repairing itself

So no matter what we all have some things to look back and smile at. Through the tumult of our society, there is a constant step towards a healthier and happier world.