Being Fortunate
By: Robert Warren
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Authors Note:
Hello readers,
This blog post I am VERY excited to share!!!! I am VERY passionate on the topic and hope you will be too. I included: the article, a breakdown, questions, activites, and different areas you can explore. Enjoy!
The Article:
You walk in the door after a long day of work, take off your shoes, and walk inside your home. You sit on the couch in the living room and just clear your mind. "What a long day. I can't wait until the weekend. Hopefully it is not as busy tomorrow." There are a lot of thoughts that pass through your busy mind. "Wait--oh, no. I think I am hungry." You head to the fridge, open it, and look around to find something. You decide to just make a t.v. dinner. You read the instructions, put it in the microwave and get yourself a drink while it finishes. The microwave rings and you pull it out, being careful not to burn yourself. You set it on the table and grab your silverware. You grab your drink and head to the table. You begin eating and realize you need to get up to get a movie. You head to the dvd shelf located in your room which stores all the best dvds. You think about which one you want and finally pick one so your dinner does not get old. Now lets evaluate the situation.
The Breakdown:
You walk in the door after a long day of work, take off your shoes, and walk inside your home.
*Many people are searching for a job and you have one. You have a place where people count on you to do your work. You are important to the company and fortunate to have a job. You take off your shoes that someone made and someone else is begging for. You are fortunate to have them. You have a home which is a humble place of comfort, peace, and inner strength. This home is also a place of gathering maybe with others, or maybe this is a place to gather yourself. Regardless this home of yours, you are fortunate to have.
You sit on the couch in the living room and just clear your mind.
*This couch you are sitting on took time to create. Somone had to think "oh, I want something to sit on. Something soft to sink in. I want something I can get tired on and be comfy without getting hurt." That idea then had to be created into action, and was developed to the couch you have today. Again, you are fortunate even having a spot to clear your mind.
You head to the fridge, open it, and look around to find something. You decide to just make a t.v. dinner.
*This fridge, this thing keeping your food cold, you are fortunate to have. Think of all the food that would melt, spoil, or get old faster without it. This storage device is here for you and hides all the food until you open the door, fortunate, yet again. Now the t.v. dinner. The food you can cook in minutes. The food keeping you from having to cook. The food that comes in a box so you dont have to wash a plate. This t.v. dinner is there to make your life simpler, and that is another reason you are fortunate.
You read the instructions, put it in the microwave and get yourself a drink while it finishes.
*You are fortunate it came with directions. Imagine if there were no recipes, no prepared packaged food, and no prepared ingredients. You would be trying to cook mindless and that food probably wouldn't taste nearly as good. Just think about it. Think if there were no drinks prepared. You would probably be drinking a lot of water that wasnt even fresh. Gross. Nevermind the drink itself, dont forget how fortunate you are that there is something to put the drink in.
The microwave rings and you pull it out, being careful not to burn yourself. You set it on the table and grab your silverware. You grab your drink and head to the table.
*You have a table to put your food on. This table is flat and even so your food balances on it. This table is made at good height to suit you. Now think how fortunate you are. Think about how much thought must have gone into deciding the height of the table. Consider how they even had to ponder the weight and how movable the table is. Now the silverware, the odd shapes that go into creating each utensil. The silverware is made each with a different purpose. The spoons purpose is to scoop. The forks purpose is to pick up. The knifes purpose is to cut. Think about it, and later even consider what the purpose of other objects/animals/or people might be. Think of how fortunate you are to have silverware and a microwave. This microwave if you think about it is a device to cook inside your home. Consider how fortunate you are to be able to cook indoors, in minutes, and in warmth.
You begin eating and realize you need to get up to get a movie. You head to the dvd shelf located in your room which stores all the best dvds. You think about which one you want and finally pick one so your dinner does not get old.
*Being able to eat is truly a prime example of something you should be fortunate for. As you know many cant eat, but you can. Think about how fortunate you are to be able to enjoy the feel, smell, look, taste, and sound of food. Think of the many different types, textures, and varities out there. Think of how fortunate you are to have fold from different areas of the world, as we are allowed to trade, and import food. Now for the dvds. Look at your dvds and image if each were only $5 how much is on your shelf. When I thought about that it inspired me to write this article. If you dont have dvd's, look at cd's or other materialized items you may have. Think about each dvd and how silly it can sometimes sound when you say: "I can't find anything to watch" when there is a shelf full of dvd's. Also think about how fortunate you are to have these moving pictures on your screen. Think, motion pictures, pictures that are in motion creating the video on your screen. Now you can understand how fortunate you are tp be able to watch the video. Think about how fortunate you are people are acting, writing, directing, and teching those films. Think about how fortunate you are that a great film is great. How those actors work so well collaborating together. How the technology is working so well. Appreciate the fact these films can to create years to work on, edit and design. Think about how fortunate you are to eat multiple times a day.
Now take a step back.
You can read, appreciate that. Apprectiate the fact you have internet to look at this blog. Please appreciate the writers, as they appreciate the readers. Without the readers there would be no need for writers. So in the end I hope this blog post helped you realize how fortunate you truley are. I didnt even discuss how fortunate you are for math, science, education, transportation, mechanics, or social media. Think about where you are fortunate.
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Things to Remember:
The key to being fortunate is to appreciate the most minute of details. You need to understand all you really have in order to understand you were fortunate all along.
Being fortunate isn't something that you have or you dont. Everyone has it---just to different extents. It is just a matter of realizing you have it.
Unfortunate things are also fortunate. The question one must ask is---how?
Activities:
-Tell people you appreciate how fortunate you are they are in your life.
-Do a collage for someone of things you are fortunate for.
-Make a list of things you are literally (not mentally ) fortunate for & use that list as a scavenger hunt.
-Try to be more others more fortunate you are in their life
-Try to surprise someone to show them you are fortunate of them
Questions:
-What does it mean to be fortunate?
-Who is fortunate?
-What are you fortunate for?
-What are things or areas of your life where you may have missed the fact you were fortunate?/How?
Explore:
-Realizing where you are fortunate
-Seeing the details (Stella Adler)
-Being in the moment (Meisner)
-Seeing things you would normally miss (Uta Hagen)
-Looking at mechanical drawings of things
-Looking at the science behind things
-Seeing who is really involved in things
Thank you for reading. I haven't posted on my blog for quite awhile but had to because how moved I am on this topic. If you enjoyed reading, PLEASE SPREAD THIS POST. I am very passionate on this one and would love for others to read this. Again thank you for reading.
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