With a touch of a button I can control the temperature of this room where I sit. With a touch of another button I have access to over 200 video channels on my cable TV. I can walk a few steps and obtain frozen ice to cool my drink. I have never known starvation and never worried where I would obtain my next meal. In fact, I can go just a mile or so and have the choice of foods from all over the world. I have lived a mostly healthy life with few major illnesses. How lucky can one guy be?
I am sure most of this is true of the vast majority of people who live in the US and have access to the Internet. Yet we, including myself, foolishly take these fantastic luxuries for granted. In the past rulers of great kingdoms could not boast of such extravagances no matter how much gold and silver they owned.
We could talk about the excesses of the very wealthy in this country (I will at some point) but that should not keep us from rejoicing at what we have right now. I want to enjoy what I have,
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