on thankfulness
I usually am not thankful for many things because I feel like I usually have very little to be thankful for. But I now finally have a decent job and I'm really thankful for that.
People always say one should be thankful for one's good health. I'm not entirely certain why, but that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth though I suppose it's technically true. It might be that it feels like telling a 40 year old man who has recently become a quadriplegic "Wow, you have a great head of hair! You should be very grateful it's not thinning like mine!" Life is not about thinning hair or good health. Life is about happiness and love. If you have those things, thinning hair and bad health are irrelevant. If you don't, luscious hair and robust health are irrelevant.
I'm very grateful that I live in this decade and not in some previous one (although to be perfectly honest, I probably would be even happier further into the future). It is so nice having smart phones, books on mp3, google maps, gps, wikipedia, downloadable movies and music, email, online commerce, sophisticated video game, and sophisticated creativity software. I am grateful that I live during a time where I can witness rapid historical changes for the better take place during my lifetime - something that was not the case for nearly all of human history.
It's also so nice to have universal sufferage, and not have slavery or overt racism or caste systems in place.
I'm thankful my car doesn't break every time I use it. Not that it's ever been unreliable, but rather just because a broken car is such a pain.
People always say one should be thankful for one's good health. I'm not entirely certain why, but that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth though I suppose it's technically true. It might be that it feels like telling a 40 year old man who has recently become a quadriplegic "Wow, you have a great head of hair! You should be very grateful it's not thinning like mine!" Life is not about thinning hair or good health. Life is about happiness and love. If you have those things, thinning hair and bad health are irrelevant. If you don't, luscious hair and robust health are irrelevant.
I'm very grateful that I live in this decade and not in some previous one (although to be perfectly honest, I probably would be even happier further into the future). It is so nice having smart phones, books on mp3, google maps, gps, wikipedia, downloadable movies and music, email, online commerce, sophisticated video game, and sophisticated creativity software. I am grateful that I live during a time where I can witness rapid historical changes for the better take place during my lifetime - something that was not the case for nearly all of human history.
It's also so nice to have universal sufferage, and not have slavery or overt racism or caste systems in place.
I'm thankful my car doesn't break every time I use it. Not that it's ever been unreliable, but rather just because a broken car is such a pain.