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lessons from the greats. Today we’re going to talk about gratitude,
As you probably
didn’t know, my birthday was the other day and, like happens for most people, I
went between happy for all the presents and attention to shocked by the extent
of my age. But, thinking about it, I put things in perspective and it might
help you to hear my conclusions.
Every year,
every month, every day, there’s a thousand things that can go wrong, at least
half of them lethal. You can electrocute yourself, poison yourself (in multiple
different ways − through cleaning supplies!), you can drown, be murdered, hit
by a car, beaten by an angry spouse, and consumed by an epidemic of flying
crocodiles. In short, there are a lot of reasons why both you and I shouldn’t
be here (and I haven’t even gone into the biological improbabilities of it or
the chances of super illness).
Yet, chances
are, if you’re reading this, you are! I mean, isn’t it fantastic that despite
the overwhelming odds, we’re still alive.
Every birthday
provides us with a mark of stability, like the Queen does or the Olympics. It’s
something so human and so natural it can’t help but ground us. At this point,
it allows us an opportunity to see how far we’ve come since the previous year,
to see what went right and wrong.
But it offers
something much more… the chance to be grateful that we survived. There’s only
so many birthdays you have. If you have one hundred of them, you’re fortunate.
Enjoy each and
every one of them and celebrate with open heart. After all, you never know when
those flying crocodiles are going to show up, hungry and waiting to take you
away before your next birthday.
Alex H.
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