You ARE Living THE Life!

You wake up in your warm comfortable bed, go to the kitchen that is stocked full of food and enjoy a breakfast that takes all of three minutes to acquire, prepare and consume. You then pick out an outfit from your diversely filled closet which allows you to stay cool in the heat and warm in the cold. You then hop into your car and get frustrated when the 15 minute drive turns into a 20 minute drive on the way to class. You sit in the safe, secure classroom and grunt and groan about being stuck in there for two whole hours. While you sit there in the classroom with other students discussing horrific global issues occurring in the world, you are distracted by facebook on your phone where you discuss dinner plans with your friends. After class you hop back into your car and sing along to songs about trials and triumphs as if you have some sense of experiencing true hardship and the fight for survival. When you get home you feed your pet with more food than children in poverty receive all day. You proceed to change into a new, clean outfit to exercise in. Once you arrive at the gym you resentfully get on the treadmill where you briskly walk for 20 minutes, which is a fraction of what others must walk barefoot just to find fresh water or food for their parched and starving young. After hopping off and feeling well accomplished you wander over to the free weights and casually complain about bills to a workout buddy while failing to realize that these bills exist because you have the luxury of living in a home, driving rather than walking, and the recent technology of cell phones and entertainment devices. After breaking a slight sweat you hop back in your car, go home and take a shower, dousing yourself with clean water that runs over your body and right down the drain. Water that people in other countries don't have and often parish because they are forced to quench their thirst with unclean and contaminated water. After getting out of the shower you dry off, warm up, and put on a clean new outfit again. You then hop back into your car, avoiding the nuisance of walking, and arrive at a restaurant where you comfortably sit down with friends. You demand a cheeseburger and a cold refreshing beverage. The server goes to the kitchen, has your food prepared for you and then serves it to you; while accommodating any other requests that you may have. You enjoy a few laughs in good company and return home with a full belly. After retiring to bed you lay comfortably with no concern about the weather or surviving the night. You have no worries about how you might survive tomorrow as you drift into a peaceful sleep in the safety of your home.

We have so many blessings that go unnoticed throughout the day. These are luxuries that we take for granted and fail to realize that others around the world only dream about. Appreciate your blessings even if they're small because you just might have something that others would die for, literally.