Assets and liabilities......

[poltr1]

It's far too easy for me to focus on -- and worry about -- my liabilities when I see them on a balance sheet. There are physical (and fiscal) assets -- home, cars, retirement money, collections and collectable items. And then there are non-fiscal assets like having a roof over my head, clothes on my bank, food on the table, and reasonably good health.

Some people don't even have this. I don't know how they go on from day to day, living in constant despair and desparation. But I think I'm learning from firsthand experience the past few weeks.

Perhaps this is the wake-up call, or the kick in my complacency that I needed to change my ways, that I should not take these things for granted.

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[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

My uncle was a Marine in Viet Nam, he used to live next door to us untill I was 5, I may have learned it from him. I don't remember where I got it from, maybe I was told that belief while I was in our local VA hospital when my back was broken. I was only 7, but thet were the only place equiped at the time to handle such an injury.