Too often, the majority of us take for granted the simplest things in life, sometimes without even realizing that we are doing it.Imagine waking up one day and trying to get up out of bed, only to find that you can't feel your legs at all. Have you ever thought about what life would be like if one day you woke up and you couldn't hear anything ? Imagine one day you're looking outside, enjoying the view of the city, and then next thing you know, you lose total use of your vision, permanently, whether it be due to an accident, or an illness. Can you think of what your life would be like if one day if you were in a terrible accident and you had to have a limb amputated, whether it be your arm or leg (or even just a hand or a foot) ?
How would you feel ? Would you be able to cope with it and learn to adapt and live your life without the use of your legs (or an arm or just one leg, maybe one hand, or one foot), or would you get so depressed that you would just give up ? If you lost your hearing, would you learn sign language and learn to read lips, or again, would you just give up and expect someone to be your ears for you ? What about if you lost your sight ? Would you learn to read braile, get a seeing-eye dog, and learn to live life as a blind person, or would you just keep yourself locked up in your home, mad at the world, and expect people to come and treat you like a baby, feeding you, dressing you, bathing you, doing everything for you that you could have done before you lost your sight ?
We all assume that if we are born with the ability to walk, see, hear, touch, etc, that we will always be able to do those things. Sometimes we take it for granted, and we don't appreciate it. How many times have you seen a disabled person on the street and thought to yourself that you just wish they would move out of the way, or go somewhere else ? Alot of people will deny thinking that way, but be honest, alot of us have at one time or another. There's even some people who go as far as to make fun of a disabled person, calling them names, making funny faces at blind people, knocking someone's cane or crutch out from under them, pushing a wheelchair down a steep street, etc. No one stops to think that maybe, just maybe, those people once had full use of their senses just like we do, and that they have to deal with the biggest change of their life.
Why make it harder on them ?
Some of those people might even have been born blind, or deaf, and have never been able to get a feel for the sounds and sights that we see and/or hear on a daily basis. Sounds and sights that to us might seem to be so trivial and unimportant, like the sunlight coming through a window, the flowers swaying in the wind, a child chasing a kite through a park, laughing as she runs, a dog barking out of excitement.
These are all things in our daily lives that we take for granted, without realizing it.
Once someone loses one of those senses that they once had, it is then, that they finally realize that they have taken even the simplest things in life for granted. They start to understand how some of those disabled people they once made fun of are feeling, because now, they are disabled themselves. They realize and appreciate that life is precious and that we shouldn't be taking anything for granted, even something as simple as hearing the sound of rain hitting a rooftop during a storm.
An always have in mind that we all need to stop taking things for granted and start appreciating them more before its too late.
