![]() I worried that the wonderful things around me would start to seem commonplace. While we were at the Kloof, I worried about entitlement a lot. It’s why I don’t play lotto: because it would just seem greedy in the face of all of this. That even the scariest moments of our life turn out to not be brain cancer. That he managed to crawl out of the copious hole of debt he had, and now is the head of a company that’s doing okay. How lucky we are that the kid we fell in love with in our 20s has grown into the person we still love – passionately, dearly, often obnoxiously- now that we are in our 30s. ![]() To remind ourselves that we’ve hit the jackpot time and again. Life can be stupidly unfair, and if we are lucky enough to have the good things outweigh the bad, then we’d better take a minute, or an hour, or several long years, to acknowledge that.Īnd, hell, if we actually have those several long years in which to do that? That’s once more thing to add to the “good” list. Or you can work your fingers to the bone day in and day out and have absolutely nothing to show for it if the circumstances are wrong. You can sit on your butt and live a cushy life if the circumstances are right. That you’ve earned it, and that if people have less than you, it’s because they’ve managed to muck things up for themselves.īut that is complete and utter bullshit. ![]() To look at all the wonders of your life, all the lucky breaks and acts of charity from others, and suddenly start thinking that you’ve somehow deserved it. ![]() I think that when life gets cushy and nice, it can be easy to lose perspective. I think we’re both incredibly scared of forgetting just how damn lucky we are.Įvery now and then, I take a minute think about how charmed my existence is: how every single day is full of beautiful things and people and good health and the occasional cookie or four. It’s something that comes up a lot for both us. Rand and I have been talking a lot about entitlement lately. Debris on the side of the road in one of the townships in Cape Flats. ![]()
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