Do you ever think about how lucky you are? I do, not a lot, but every few years I think about how lucky I am to be placed where I've been placed, simply from an accident of birth. I've been thinking about that today.
I found a grid of global population by age and sex, about 268,000 people alive today were born the same day I was. Probably 300,000 people where born the day I was born (taking into account mortality rates). I had originally calculated the percentage of people in North America and earning a middle class income or better giving me a 2.5% chance of being born as fortunately as I was, but it would be higher than that as there are lots of other wealthy countries I could have been born into. Still, I'm pretty fortunate. I believe I have a responsibility to humanity to help others because I can, but what to do? There are so many choices. I think some of the first things I need to choose though are to look to the needs of others before my own comforts, do I really need that piece of pie? Could not the $2-3 it costs be put to better use? What about that new item? Do I really need more clutter in my life? More things?
In other news, I got a haircut and highlights, can I just say something meekly? That although it was more than I intended to spend...I feel pretty, so it was worth every penny.
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I'd love to see you new hair :) Are you free soon????
I think about how lucky we are quite often. How is that we have so much that we take for granted while others have so little. Sometimes I feel guilty washing my clothes in water that is clean enough to drink while in parts of the world children die from a lack of clean drinking water. Seems pretty backwards sometimes!
I agree about haircuts and feeling pretty. I pay too much for my haircuts, but it's worth it!!
Glad you posted!! :)
you ARE pretty. When can we see the new hair? (which is not so new now, because it's nearly 2 weeks since you posted this blog.)
We are fortunate.
I think of you often - we live so close but don't see enough of each other. Maybe you should just drop by after work some day for a BBQ dinner....
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