In sitting in our office at home, taking time to continue reading The Fabric of Reality (by David Deutsch), it occurs to me (so often, when I have the time and chance to expand my horizons through reading) how absolutely and utterly lucky I am to have not only grown up in a free society, but also the family I was born into. Now that's what I call a pregnant sentence.
Seriously. Do you ever sit back and think about how lucky you are? I'm guessing that if you're reading this, you have an abundance of free time on your hands (otherwise, I'd have to ask... what prompted you to read this?) and are lucky enough to have access to the internet. Those to items in it of themselves are cause for the happy realization that you have it pretty good. They say a lot about your [likely] situation and what an amazing time we live in.
Two hundred years ago, even if I had some amount of wealth and spare time, I wouldn't have had the access to the sheer abundance of information I do today. Between the thousands, if not millions, of newspapers I can access in the palm of my hands (ahem... PDA phones/iPhone) and cheap access to free thought (ahem... amazon.com), I am far closer and more intimately involved with knowledge than I could have been then.
I'm not a gambling man, but that's what I call luck of the draw.
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