It's Unfair in My Eyes

I know November is the month of “thanksgiving”, where we all write about what we are grateful for. I planned on doing such a thing and sharing it, but since starting a brand new job I’ve been a little swamped (“stressed” is a better word, but swamped works too). I would write about this particular topic any day of the week, of any month of any given year. It is something I think about almost constantly because I realize how unfair and imbalanced it is in this world.

I cannot help but write today of how grateful I am for my health and for a body that works properly every single day.

It hurts my heart to think of the men, women, and children in the world who do not have this incredible blessing and priviledge.

I think of this because the last 2 years has been heart wrenching for me. I have not lost any one in my family, but friends have lost loved ones to cancer and other forms of sickness. Young children, vibrant with life so bright it makes your eyes crinkle with a smile*. Young men, bold, courageous and positive even through “miles of clouded hell"**.

It always kills me to see such bright candles snuffed out and smoking before their wax begins to melt. Winds and howling rainstorms do their best to make their flames sputter and die out, and yet they burn hotter with the resistance.

I always wonder why some of us are given a clean bill of health, with minor accidents and very few (if any) life-shattering ailments, while others are riddled with disease, cancer, deformities, and complications. What makes those of us who are healthy so special? Did we miss a line in heaven, a line that required us to experience some sort of physical, mental, or spiritual ailment? Were we selfish and skipped that line? I surely hope not.

I do not know answers. But it is definitely on the top of my list to ask when I die and meet my Maker.

Today, I’m grateful for a healthy life. A life without complications. I suppose because I am so blessed, it is my duty to help the others who struggle, who hurt and suffer through their trials of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional duress.

*Visit Mille's 5K Princess Run Facebook Page. Join in on the fun next year! **Imagine Dragons- “It’s Time” dedicated to Tyler Robinson.     See the Tyler Robinson Foundation website here