shit we take for granted

[Antryg_Windrose]

Do these ever occur to you?

The St Lawrence Seaway: without it, much of industrial and agricultural America and Canada would be irrelevant.

Basic careful sanitation: without it, pain and disease and early death flourish.

Food and drug regulation and inspection: without them, you get rancid and phony shit.

Zippers: button flies are cute but a fucking pain when you're frantic.

What do you usually ignore?

 

[FL30]

Sunrise, sunset, the oxygen that we breathe, the rain that makes plants grow so that we have food to eat and beauty.

Sanitation workers that take the garbage away, the people that clean our water for us so that we have clean water to use as we see fit, (cooking, cleaning, laundry, showering, etc).

The ability to wake up and get out of bed by myself, without help from anyone or any drugs.

Lots more things that we take for granted each and every day.

 

[Antryg_Windrose]

Continued existence, then. We assume we'll continue. We only notice objects and events that intrude; everything else is just there for us to instinctively step around. Why bother if it's no bother? Don't think of pavement unless it goes away.

 

[Admiral_Ackbar]

The mail.