I got a new phone this week, and I know that this is now a universal experience so everyone will understand what I am talking about. It feels a little different in my hand, I had to remember countless passwords to open all my regular apps, and the sounds are different. However, some where in my eyerolling I remembered that not very long ago a new phone meant that all your contacts were erased, and that you started all over for customization. Now I have a phone that in just a half an hour has the same weird selfie on my lock screen that my daughter snuck on over the weekend. All my apps are in the same place and all my conversations and contacts. We have come so far in our technology and convenience. It’s probably like this with many things, we sometimes forget all the good when faced with a little irritation or trouble. You sometimes see a popular meme that expresses, remember when all you have now was something you were praying for? That is true for many things, I used to drive old cars that my first husband pieced together with duct tape, that could easily choose to stall at any time, and I wished for a reliable car. Now I have had a non-taped reliable car for well over 20 years. It is important to once and a while remember, there are many things so much better, things we know better, lessons we have learned. Sure, there are still challenges and wishes for better, but the day to day is so much brighter when sprinkled with gratitude and appreciation.
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