What they are: Blessed. I've said it before, I think here, that we in America are the luckiest humans who have ever lived, ever in the history of the species. We've never known famine, our children dying is rare and remarkable, we haven't had a war on our soil in more than 150 years. We have electricity, antibiotics, refrigeration, and the greatest miracle of all if you ask women elsewhere in the world, running water in our homes.
It's easy for us to forget that elsewhere, children are dying while their mothers watch helplessly. It's even easier when it's cheaper for the multinationals who run the media to cover Natalie Holloway and Terri Schiavo endlessly than to cover real news: Famine in Kenya and Niger; a civil war in Chechnya that's killing thousands and leaving more homeless; and here in the States the refugees from Katrina still struggling in a landscape that looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war with about as many services. In fact, today is the day the remaining Katrina victims in hotels are thrown out.
Maybe you can't give time or money. I'm about exhausted of both myself. You can, however, give a thought or a prayer, and give some gratitude for the life that is yours. Whatever problems most of us have, they're so small in the scheme of things.
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