Counting my blessings
By Rhombus
@Rhombus (356)
South Africa
July 25, 2017 1:22pm CST
I am truly blessed with two amazing healthy boys, a husband who puts up with me, I live in a house, I have two dogs, my most beautiful cat. I'm employed, I have a smartphone so can earn extra income and keep in touch, I can read and communicate, I have Internet access - there's nothing I can't learn.
Do I want more? Sure, everybody does. I'm not perfect.
For today however, I'm counting all my blessings and truly grateful.
At what point did society become so greedy...The simple things bring so much happiness, when did it change?
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@Rhombus (356)
• South Africa
25 Jul 17
Well, I must be brutally honest. If my kids were starving and we had no support system I would definitely steal. Not from private individuals, but large retail stores.
I would never contemplate crime where people are hurt, families etc (nothing violent).
If you are desperate, well sometimes a jail time with three meals a day etc must feel like a second place reward.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
25 Jul 17
I am not sure of the answer of when it did change, but I know many people are now trying to get back to the simple life but with great difficulty.
I am glad to know you are well situated and grateful.
I am grateful for a roof over our heads.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
25 Jul 17
@Rhombus This is right and that dang tv..there are two here, but if it were up to me I wouldn't bother with it. It surely is a trap.
Yes health and peace and a roof over our head is valuable.
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@Rhombus (356)
• South Africa
25 Jul 17
@TiarasOceanView We are happy without one (here the free TV is rubbish, paid TV full of repeats and really expensive). TV seems to be a benchmark though of how well you are doing, people are shocked we don't have one and have no desire to get one either. It's just a thing...
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@Rhombus (356)
• South Africa
25 Jul 17
No matter how much people have, it's not enough. We don't even have one TV, others have five. I read a saying to be grateful for what you don't have as well (illness etc). The roof over our head, so true - once you've been faced with it being taken away, you appreciate it a whole lot more.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Jul 17
I'm glad that you are satisfied with your blessings!
Greediness has been with mankind since Adam and Eve got greedy and ate the forbidden fruit. So it has a long history.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
27 Jul 17
@Rhombus They ate from the one tree that they were told not eat from. They had so many trees that were not off limits. They got greedy and what happened? They were thrown out of the garden of Eden and they lost everything. I would say that greediness always leads to disappointment.
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