We don't even realize how spoiled we are here in this part of the Universe. We take everything life gives us for granted. If we would find ourselves without any of life's comforts we would panic.
I bet if somebody from today's generation would find himself in the middle of the Sahara Desert he or she would be upset for two reasons. One: no Starbucks in sight; two: can't text to a friend.
Yesterday my friend from England told us a funny story. It seems he had a clogged outside drain in his house. He looked everywhere to buy a good size rubber plunger that would work.
He was unsuccessful getting one around where he lived. Nobody seemed to carry such a thing except the ones good for the inside of the house.
He was forced to call a plumber who came over and in a few minutes cleaned the drain with the right size plunger. He naturally had one.
It seems that in England the 6" or larger heavy duty plungers are in short supply. So, my friend went in to the first hardware store he saw in New York and bought one for around $6. Good move!
When he told us the story we were amazed and immediately questioned him that don't the have a Home Depot or Walmart or K Mart over there?
The bottom line was that it was difficult for us to imagine life without any of these establishments. We are so spoiled, we are so used to these so called comforts that it is hard to grasp when someone lives without them.
This is similar to our saga I wrote about on March 16 when we had to tackle life without TV and the Internet. I don't want to say it was horrible but it was really crappy.
What I am trying to say is that maybe instead of constantly complaining about everything we should look around at what we do have and be a little bit grateful for it.
We really don't even realize how good we have until we don't have!
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