One of probably our biggest weaknesses, as humans, is that of us taking other people and things for granted.
Whether it is parents taking their children or being taken by their children for granted.
Or a woman or man taking his or her partner for granted, or us taking the conveniences - water, electricity, commuter transport, the safety and security we are afforded in our daily living, our relationships with other - for granted.
We adopt and adjust to taking what and whom we rely on most, is for granted.
We come to expect and believe that they will always be there when we need them, when we want them.
We use and even abuse them without thinking about it; about what we are doing to them, or what they have had to endure in order to be there for us when we want and need them.
We either only rarely acknowledge them, or never acknowledge them and the role they play in our daily routine and living.
Yes, there are the occasions when we will sent them 'a mother's day card' and/or a bouquet of flower, or a 'father's day card.'
Or send them a birthday card, but, for the most part we do not acknowledge and thank them for the role they play in our daily lives.
Fathers and mothers might have been given their 'day of acknowledgement.'
But what of sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters, et al? Do they not deserved to have their 'special day' as well?
In adolescence and adulthood, we still rely on these and other people and things which we have come to take for granted.
As if they our parents, and we are no more than egocentric infants who are unable to place ourselves into the 'others position.' And see the world from their perspective. Be able to empathise with them. With those whom we are taking for granted.
To be continued.
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