The Blessed And The Unfortunate

The blessed walk among us, and we don’t realize it. Sometimes life can seem so gawdawful, yet there are people who also have it hard in different ways. Worst of all are those who are under the heels of others, without anyone else knowing. Thinking of the "unfortunates" will perhaps conjure up images of orphans, people with handicaps, the poor and other "unfortunate" people. However, few ever think of those otherwise physically normal who are ostracized from society. Few ever consider the lower wage earners who are barely able to survive despite earning their less-than-minimum wage.

Also, there are those who seem more privileged than anyone has a right to be. People who are too pretty for their own good, too rich to comprehend or perhaps having descendants reaching from shore to shore. Nobody ever seems to stop to consider if they are truly happy, on the whole, with their lives.

Of course, there are also those blessed in life. Perhaps they are rich, poor, pretty or ugly. But what they have in common is being at peace with who they are, and what they have. Ironically enough, some of them may well be in the category of "unfortunates" for most people.