Getting up, walking the dog, going to work, working, going home, an evening of NewsHour, some fun, some chores, going up and down stairs, going to bed, to sleep. Same tomorrow. It is easy - and tempting - to imagine more exciting things to do and places to be.
It's not so easy - but much more important - to imagine being deprived of one's present degree of health and abilities, one's comforts - shelter, enough food, clean running water, a warm bed; one's freedoms, reputation, job and opportunities; and the health and lives of friends and family members. Such imagining is much more important than easy fantasies because from imagining trouble and loss naturally flow greater peace where one is, more gratitude for what one has and an increase in the desire to help others, from which we derive self-worth.
