As I write
this, I’m seated in an office chair at a sturdy desk, inside a well-designed
building with plumbing and electricity, the Dow is up 100 points, the sun is
shining, and the sky is blue without clouds to be seen for miles.
Many people
don’t really care for what’s happening on the financial markets, and I get
that. In fact, some people may even be
offended at the mere reference to ‘the market’, perhaps preferring to focus on
the ‘Occupy Movement’ instead. I get
that too, or at least I think I do understand it, to some degree anyway. Or, maybe I don’t?
However,
everyone likes the reference above to sunshine and blue skies, right? Or do
they? What about farmers praying to the
god they prefer, for rain? They don’t
appreciate blue skies today, do they?
Well, even
if farmers may prefer rain to blue skies, they’d be happy with the sun shining? Or not?
Maybe they only want the sun to shine when it matters, when it’s best
suited to energizing their planted crops? Is that being selfish?
You see, the
thing is, almost everything can be viewed as positives opposing negatives… or
should even this be stated ‘the other way around’?
Today, if
you won a business deal, that means someone else may have lost an opportunity
to do that deal. Meaning… they had been unsuccessful
in their attempt at generating an income via that deal, which may have
precluded them from buying food, which might have caused them to lose their
job, go hungry, and die of starvation!
People
should not be deprived of happiness. Our
single little chance at a life on earth is too precious to waste on dwelling on
negatives. This, made even worse when
you start searching for the latter!
The earth’s
surface is more than 70% water. Of the
remaining surface area, less than half is habitable due to mountains, deserts,
ice caps and other generally undesirable factors interfering with human
comforts. And these stats don’t even
account for areas without Wi-Fi, the modern foundation of Maslow’s Theory!
But, not
everyone can possibly be as happy, content and comfortable as you are right
now. Even if you’re reading this on the
subway, you’re able to bask in the delight of having access to a working
subway. No big deal you say? Yeah… think again!
Now, take
this message and allow it to lift your spirits for a while. For every single word you’ve read to this
point (418) there are at least 1,000,000 people worse off than what you are
right now.
A half billion
people aren’t that many people. That’s
right, because 6x that number of people occupy India and China alone; 37% of
the entire world’s population. And, right
again… none of them really cared that the Dow was up 100 points today, or that
the sun is shining, especially where I happen to be located right now.
That - my
very valued blog reader - is how incredibly fortunate we are… you and I, today,
in this single, precious moment in our lives.
Right now.
Live large!
Live large!
