How often do we take things for granted? How often do we forget to say thank you for what we have?

I see many people around the place today with disabilities and it reminds me to be thankful for what I have. In general I am healthy, ok I am over weight, have Lymphedema in my leg, so I have to wear a compression stocking on my leg, I have sleep apnea which means I have to wear a mask pumping air into my nose when I sleep or else I don’t sleep. Apart from this I am actually quite healthy – I think everything else is ordinary, all my limbs work as they should, my brain works (most of the time) so I am lucky. I come into contact with people on a semi-regular basis who have a disability of some sort, from being in a wheel chair and have little control of themselves to people who just have a speech impediment. It breaks my heart to see people like that and it reminds me to be more thankful for how good my life really is.

In between times however I become slack and forget to be thankful what I have, even down to the simply things in life like the freedoms we have in Australia, and the fact that I wake up every morning. I think we in western societies in general take things for granted and expect more and more should be just given to us with nothing extra from ourselves.

Well I think that is enough of a rant from me for today, I should get back to uploading my photos to flickr & being thankful

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