I watched the movie "The Edge" recently starring Anthony Hopkins. He is a billionaire businessman vacationing in Alaska. He gets lost in the wild with his wife's secret boyfriend. In the movie the remark is made "never feel sorry for someone that owns an airplane".
If you own your own personal jet, I guess that puts wealth in perspective. There are many other things that people own or do that make it hard to feel sorry for them.
For example, never feel sorry for a person that owns a Mini-Cooper.
Never feel sorry for a person that travels to France so often she is known by her first name at the Eiffel Tower.
Never feel sorry that a man that owns a Checkmate boat that will go 92 miles per hour.
Never feel sorry for a man who has a roof that doesn't leak.
Never feel sorry for a man that has an e-Bay account that is larger than the Gross National Product.
You get the idea. There are lots of things to be thankful for which eliminates a pity party. No feeling sorry for someone who has many blessings.
So you ask, what things in my life would eliminate you feeling sorry for me? Never feel sorry for me because I have my health. Never feel sorry me because my kids don't live at home. Never feel sorry for me because I have been able to spend 50 years with a special person.
The lesson Grasshoppers is that we all have sh--y things in our life but they are balanced off by many blessings. Never feel sorry for a person who has the ability to live life to it's fullest.
Love,
Dad
Who the hell has an e-bay account that is worth so much money? We got an e-bay debt. Want that?