Lets ponder here for a second...

[Max Whittaker]

It's been some time, hasn't it? Ya'll look beautiful to my eyes. It pleases me to see that the place hasn't really changed.

So. Let us ponder for a moment a very critical question. What are ten things that you take for granted?


(1) clean water
(2) My family
(3) My friends
(4) My job security
(5) peace
(6) My Health
(7) My time
(8) Reasonably clean air
(9) Air conditioning
(10) Food

Perhaps I won't have one or more of these things in the morning. What a sad thing to forget how important they are... or simply go about my life passively as though these things will always be there.

[swedeace]

1. Life, above all.
2. My family
3. My friends
4. My job security
5. Running water (Man, there were times when the water had to be restarted while I was staying at my aunt's sister's house in Mexico City. You don't really appreciate how nice it is that you can just turn on your faucets and there goes the water flowing whenever you want until you experience this).
6. My health
7. My senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste).
8. Food
9. Air conditioning/heating
10. My limbs.

[dawsongirl]

1. Air Conditioning
2. House in a nice, non-scary neighborhood
3. Having parents who will buy stuff for me, like food and gas, etc.
4. Parents who don't mind me living here.
5. People.
6. Having a car.
7. Having enough money for garbage like junk food and dvds
8. Health
9. Not anymore, but I took having health insurance for granted until I no longer had any and had a $750 dermatologist bill for a 3 minute appt.
10. I can't think of a tenth.

[Czas na Zywiec]

9. Not anymore, but I took having health insurance for granted until I no longer had any and had a $750 dermatologist bill for a 3 minute appt.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. I went to the doctor's office twice in February. Two half hour appointments and it cost me $1200. I'm still paying for it (After arguing about it for so long, we settled on a monthly payment plan because I refused to pay them that upfront, especially since I don't just have that kind of money on hand :)) And they did absolutely nothing but left me in a room for most of that half hour and when he was in, asked me a few questions. I don't see how they can charge so much for taking up space in their office?

[dawsongirl]

TELL ME ABOUT IT. I went to the doctor's office twice in February. Two half hour appointments and it cost me $1200. I'm still paying for it (After arguing about it for so long, we settled on a monthly payment plan because I refused to pay them that upfront, especially since I don't just have that kind of money on hand :)) And they did absolutely nothing but left me in a room for most of that half hour and when he was in, asked me a few questions. I don't see how they can charge so much for taking up space in their office?
Here here. I figured it would be a lot, so I transferred like $300 from savings to checking. When I went to check out, they asked if I could pay half, so I gave them $250. Got a bill 2 months later, that claimed I was late (I never got one in the first place) that was for $505. For 3 minutes, half of that being me getting undressed and dressed. :rolleyes: Getting older sucks. My only relief is the free hospital in town (where I get my psychiatric services for $8 a month), but I tried to see a dr. there for a work physical I have to get, and I was told I had to have been seen by someone there previously (which I haven't been). Nice, so I have to go to my regular dr. and pay some **** amount for something I have to do to get this new job. :censored: :)

[Czas na Zywiec]

Yea, i figured next time I get sick or injured, I'm going to take it in my own hands and be my own doctor. :) I'm never letting them take advantage of me again.

[Brad]

While I'm happy that I have my family, my friends, my job, health insurance and a reasonably middle class lifestyle, I know that nothing is forever and that I could lose any one of these at any time.

Since my health has gone to hell in the last two years, I've tried not to take anything for granted. "Tried" being the operative word here.

I think that it's human nature, at least in modern times, to automatically assume that life is supposed to be fair. For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, it's not. You'll find that out someday, too; just like I did.