I've caught myself doing something recently that I wanted to document and share. It's something that helps snap me back to reality and keep my perspective on "the bigger picture". Every few days, driving to and from work, I'll catch sight of somebody in a motorized wheelchair, or I'll see a school outing of kids with disabilities. I try and just imagine how it might change my life to be in that situation. And in doing so, consciously, I take all the little nit-picky issues and complaints I have with the demands of parenting, the workload at the office, the lack of time in a day, hell.. even my posted techo-frustrations, encounters with bad drivers or poor customer support, and I hold it up against that individual's circumstances. It stops me cold in my tracks, and I mentally slap myself upside the head. And I recognize, in the grand scheme of things, how good I really do have it, and how grateful I am for so many things that I take for granted, Things that somebody else less fortunate then I might see as a gift they'll long for over a lifetime, and never obtain.
This is not to say I won't write and rant about some of these things. It just means that I'll continue do so with a sense of humor, and that I realize that it's a gift just to be able to do so.
