Every once in a while when I'm home, I catch a show I really like. It's on the Discovery Channel and it's called "I Shouldn't be Alive." It is done partly in reenactments and includes the people who have actually had some horrible experience where, statistically at least, they should not have been able to live through it. Yet they did. Some call it miraculous intervention, some call it very strong willpower and others call it sheer energy. It's so intangible to some and so evident to others.
If you watch until the end of the show you will discover most have gone on to write books about their experience or become a motivational speakers. And there is a common thread among ALL of them. They are always asked about how the experience has changed their lives and it has to every single one of them. They are SO grateful and blessed to just get up in the morning and be ALIVE. They view everything differently now. And are thankful for every single minute.
I wonder, sometimes, why we have to go through such a traumatic experience or similar situation to appreciate life. It was taught to us years ago that the more we count our blessings, the more we will get. Even the blessings that come from a dark cloud----which I remember my Grandmother always telling me had a silver lining. Too bad it took so many years for my Grandmother's advice and sayings to finally sink in. It's sad as well that it will often take an accident, a tragedy or a serious illness to make us become grateful for all that we have and love. For everything we have been given to treasure that we see every day and somehow manage to look beyond until we don't see all the WONDERS anymore. The wonderful thing is, you don't have to look for the good or happiness....didn't Dorothy say it's never further then your own backyard?
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