Rain

I watched the rain after a jog I took tonight. The rain fell in sheets. Most don't even recognize it. It made me think...

Often times I think about how humanity goes through their lives not really knowing what they want. When it is warm out we wish it was cooler. When it is hot and dry we wish it would rain. Yet when it is cooler or it rains, we act as though we never wanted it to be cooler or we shut the open window to stop from hearing or feeling the rain. What we asked for was a disservice to us. We are never really content with what we have. 

Even we are ungrateful in our comforts that "come standard". We feel the dishes aren't cleaned right but we refuse to do even our own dishes...the shower stall isn't big enough...the kitchen isn't big enough... the computer does not move fast enough for me...the food is horrible... the list goes on. We are forever ungrateful for what we are given. Nothing is ever good enough, even when we are inconvenienced just a little we cannot cope and we complain.

Why not be glad we have the ability to shower whenever we want, that we have air conditioning, that we have a computer, that we even have a place to stay to begin with. We get so comfortable with what we assume is standard and vital to living; a bed, a mattress, sheets, a pillow, clean water, shoes, clothing, food... we have it all but we want more. 

do we know what we want? do we know what we need? do we know the difference between the two? 

It is a gift to even be alive and able to stop and realize what we have... to look around and see beauty and not just random beauty, but planned artistic beauty. We have it all... but we don't even realize it.

I watched the rain after a jog I took tonight. It fell in sheets. Most don't even recognize it