A Month of Gratitude, Day 30 - Living in the First World

Today I have enjoyed:

• Being alive because I have access to medical care. I can think of several points in my life where I would have died without it.
• Central heat. It's below freezing today, and I've never had to chop firewood in my life.
• Running water. With which to make coffee and wash my body.
• Indoor plumbing. With which to dispose of coffee.
• Electricity. To drive all the technology with which I make my living and enrich my life.
• Living on the right side of the digital divide. I love living in the future.
• Food security. I've never gone hungry a day in my life. This distinguishes me from about 99% of other human beings in the history of the world. 

Sometimes it's good to get back to basics. Today I'm grateful to be lucky enough to have been born into a First World country, to a family that could afford to care for me.