Obscure Gratitude

Sooooo I definitely had my daily routine fall flat recently. haha. BUT I have a few minutes and wanted to share an idea really quick...

I am REALLY grateful for our well developed society. Have you ever spent any time thinking about the modern conveniences that make life FREAKING GREAT on a daily basis?

For example, how great is it to have access to a washing machine and dryer!??! I can just pop it in and take out clean clothes within a couple hours. How much more convenient is that than hand washing and air drying (what if it was raining?!!?)? What about an oven, stove, and refrigerator? How cool is it that we can can foods, freeze dry foods, or have other slow to perish foods? How much more convenient is it to have stores where we can shop for food?!?!

What about our modern infrastructure? Specifically, I'm WAYYY grateful for our potable (drinking) water and sewer system. How cool is it to have drinking fountains and sinks to get water from? How great is it to not have to worry about where our next water comes from? There are societies in the world today that have to spend most of their waking hours simply trying to acquire water for themselves! Also, what the heck would we do with all of our poop? I'm so grateful for toilets!!! That makes life so much easier to deal with!

What about phones, texting, and internet?!?! Texting and calling people close to me is so great! And with a headset, I can even call them while on the move! Texting... it's great. Internet... SOOOO many great things at our fingertips! My online banking went down today; I was frustrated. But then I remembered how great it is that I have freakin mobile banking!

And... I wouldn't be able to find many places without gps. They make life so much simpler and awesome. AND I remember when I was in Paris over the summer, I was able to show a new friend what the house I grew up in looked like! Google Maps is so cool!

Moral... for all the haters of modern convenience, there are WAYYY more pros than cons. For sure there are cons. I dislike a number of things that have happened, but I am grateful that today while reflecting in the bathroom I remembered of all the great things they have enabled. I look forward to that day in the relatively soon future (within 10 years) that I will have the opportunity to travel around the world and visit other places without these conveniences. It will make me appreciate it far more than I do right now. I can't really imagine what life would be like without these.