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What Makes It Necessary For Us To Be Advised Of Our Great Fortune Of Being Healthy And Qualified Humans?

I wonder if you have ever thought about what it would be like to have a disability. Most of us take so much for granted and we are always crying in self pity when we have all of our natural endowments and we are not disabled of accomplishing anything reasonable in life. What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve…I believe that.

Just recently I did a little study and it amazes me that so many of us take so much of our life for granted. When I see an individual who has a true affliction I want to kick myself for being selfish and for not being more thankful. It seems that the people who have been handed an barrier having the knowing of how to better with their less fortune circumstances; than we know how to deal with our fully equipped life. We can see, hear, walk, feed ourselves and in fact we are mobile in every aspect of our life, yet we are unhappy. Well, not quite; oh, physically we are mobile, but somehow we have lost the discerning ability to live life to the fullest.

Let me explain my point in a little detail. When is the last time you took a walk in the forest or the garden where the calm exist; that we have been given and really looked at the beautiful creation. Were thankful you could walk, hear the birds sing, watch the squirrels’ play; see the acorns fall and the green leaves on the trees? I find myself complaining of the leaves, (we have a Magnolia tree, so the leaves and debris fall year round to some degree) keep falling on the lawn. There are those who are less fortunate in this world who would love to be able to walk outside, rack the leaves, put them in a pile and probably jump into the pile and laugh as hard as they could for doing it. I find myself in self pity sometimes for reasons that are irrational because of what I can’t do, or don’t have; without being thankful for all things that I have. I can think, study, and learn, read, walk, and run, if I had to, play, drive, and have all the benefits of a good life.

Those of us that are blessed to have all of our abilities are less fortunate it seems, than the disabled in so many ways because they know how to use their restricted ability in some instances to make life bearable and here we are complaining we don’t have enough of anything. Enough of what, do we not have to give our life the energy we need to be successful? I do not think that it is about what we need; it is about not utilizing what we already have. We are born winners…yet we do not win because we are sitting on our posterior by letting someone else to do everything for them. How many teenagers in our world today know what it is to work for their allowance? How many know how important it is to be responsible spenders or conservative anything? It is all done for them, they are spoiled and do not have enough to keep them busy so they find unhealthy things to do. I am not being vindictive, if you haven’t read the statics of our youth today; you need to. I guess one could ask if we are teaching them live a careless life. “Please get your education or you will have to work for a living.” This is what they are told sometimes; life will be harder and it surely will but there are other values to getting the proper education one needs to live a more enjoyable life. Are we being fair to them if we are encouraging them choose the easy way of life? I do not think there is a way to get ahead in life or survive in this business world, if you do not know what real work is. Life is not about being the boss and someone else doing the work, most people generally start out at the bottom; at least where I come from you do. I worked about 14 years before I was in “charge” or management in one profession, longer when considering my full work history.

Intelligence does mean that we have our cake and eat it too. Brilliance is only the beginning of what it takes to make an impression in this world. If we do not use the ability we have been given or earned; we will lose it one way or the other. For instance, if a singer does not sing regularly, the ability to sing will ultimately leave that person. One must practice their skills to become greater and benefit from their abilities and knowledge. It is not life that brings despair most of the time, it is not living life the way it should be lived. It is not being able to see our own frailties in whatever it is that we are doing. It is not knowing when you have not given your best. You really do not need someone cheer you on; you will never make the grade if you wait for the applause of someone else. It would probably teach us all a great lesson if we were to live for one day with a disability. We would then probably rethink our life…

Tags: Abilities, Blessing, Capabilities, Disabilities, life
Posted in Way of Life · March 9th, 2010 · Comments (0)