A grateful heart

I am thankful God created me to exist at a time and place to experience life in mankind's most successful experiment of individual freedom.

 When I'm old, gray, feeble, and deemed worthy by a bureaucrat of only pain management, I'll tell wide-eyed children "how it used to be," when government didn't control and plan every aspect of daily life.

 Of course, they won't have a clue what the crazy old man is saying, because they wouldn't be able to imagine not having their basic needs provided in return for blind obedience. Them not speaking English as a first language certainly won't help the communication, either.

 I marvel at the world around me and the history of humanity, because what we had was truly unique. By the evidence, the normal condition of homo sapiens is to be at war and to be oppressed by power-hungry egomaniacs that believe they have a better way. -Thank you, God, for allowing me to see that it's possible for us to rise above our natural state.