Things we take for granted

Good morning,
those who follow this blog (only a few so far) may have noticed that there wasn’t an entry yesterday. This was down to circumstances; one of the things I take for granted, my Internet connection, was unavailable for a large part of yesterday. There was an outage somewhere between the place I sit, in front of my window overlooking the gardens, and where all the things that tell the Internet how to work sit.

A lack of Internet connection was very inconvenient for me, and I am only human; I got a little annoyed by it. But before I got too angry I stepped back. I stopped for a moment and thought about it. There are many thing we have in our lives that we take for granted. The electricity that powers our houses, the clean water that runs through our taps. Our ability to communicate using phones, be they attached to a land line or cellular (“mobile” as my English friends would say). Our ability to communicate with the world at large via the Internet; email, the web, blogs and forums. There are so many things we take for granted will just be there and will work when we need them.

We are fortunate.

In some parts of the world, the things we take for granted are hard to come by. In some parts of the world the things we expect “just to work” are an impossible dream.

Not long ago, the things we have today would have seemed impossible. But we have worked hard, and we have made the impossible possible; and we continue to do so. My thought for today is to appreciate the things we have, and be thankful to all those people that have been responsible for providing us with them.