What dictates who and what we are? Is it by the grace of God? Is it random luck or happenstance? Is it hard work and sweat? Perhaps some of all of the above.
I was approached by a woman in the Walmart parking lot. She said she had children and was down on her luck. She looked a mess with dark bags under her eyes and pretty thin. I know that people tell you that any money you give will just go to booze or drugs but she looked so miserable. She accepted the money and then sat down on the curbing with her head in her hands. She looked so horribly sad and I wished I had some magic cure for whatever was getting her down. Unfortunately, there is likely no such cure.
Still, seeing how bad things could really be makes you realize how lucky you are to have had good parents who taught you how to survive in this world and also to have avoided any serious wrong turns in life or unforeseen catastrophies. It is so easy to focus on what you don't have and on the material aspects in life. I think this woman was a reminder, to me at least, of how lucky we are and how thankful we should be for who we are and what we have.
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