I think about it every single day. How did I come to live in a country where I don't have to worry about this year's meager crop dying, government soldiers coming to rape me and take my children away, getting my limbs hacked off in some pointless tribal war, dying of malaria, or living in some government-provided cement cube and hoping my toilet paper ration doesn't run out?
It makes me want to strive harder to be worthy of such a gracious life.
This is how I remain so irritatingly upbeat. Or maybe I'm not and I just look that way standing next to my husband.
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I think about it every single day. How did I come to live in a country where I don't have to worry about this year's meager crop dying, government soldiers coming to rape me and take my children away, getting my limbs hacked off in some pointless tribal war, dying of malaria, or living in some government-provided cement cube and hoping my toilet paper ration doesn't run out?
It makes me want to strive harder to be worthy of such a gracious life.
This is how I remain so irritatingly upbeat. Or maybe I'm not and I just look that way standing next to my husband.
Note: All avatars and any images or other media embedded in comments were hosted on the JS-Kit website and have been lost; references to haloscan comments have been partially automatically remapped, but accuracy is not guaranteed and corrections are solicited.
If you notice any problems with this page or wish to have your home page link updated, please contact John Hardin <jhardin@impsec.org>