http://www.patrickwardphd.com Patrick Ward, Marriage and Family Therapist, Enriching Lives and Building Relationship Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:18:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2008/11/02/dont-take-life-for-granted/ http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2008/11/02/dont-take-life-for-granted/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:32:08 +0000 Patrick Ward http://67.15.157.12/~patrickw/?p=98 Taking something for granted means that you assume it will always be there.  On the whole it’s very easy to take several things for granted living in the United States; running water, telephone service, electricity, food on the store shelves and the like.  Even other “developed” countries can’t always keep these services going like we do in the U.S.   Because we consistently have so many amenities, there is an assumption they will always be there when we need them.  So then if the electric goes off for several hours, we can panic and think we can’t survive without it – but before the electric went off we weren’t even thinking about electricity and how easy it makes life to live. Continue

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