For all of you whiners and bitchers and decriers out there, it is exponentially better to be five percent alive than one hundred percent dead. Be thankful for your very existence, even if it may be a shortchanged, compromised, undermined version of someone else’s. Everyone is NOT created equal; this point should be breathtakingly obvious, yet it should not be a reason for excessive chagrin and teeth-gnashing. Don’t obsess over fairness and equity; just be grateful for your sentience and your acuity and for the magic which unfolds before you every moment of every day of the year. Not everyone is equally blessed–True true true!!!–but then again only a microscopic percentage of fused egg and sperm cells ever reach the terminus of a birth canal. You lucked out on that account given the fact you are here reading this passage, so stop bitching about the things you are missing out on in life and begin focusing on the positive things that you are currently experiencing instead. Trust me, there are A LOT of them out there, and if you cannot see them it is only because you are too busy complaining and not looking very hard!
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