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Today’s quote is from Hans Christian Anderson. A Danish Author who lived from 1805 to 1875 and is best known for writing well known fairy tales like The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes and more.
He also wrote many plays, novels and autobiographies but it was the fairy tales that made him famous.
Hans Christian Anderson once said…
“The whole world is full of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them everyday things.”
Oh yeah… this is definitely true.
This quote was coined over 125 years ago and Anderson saw everyday miracles back then.
Today, we have giant flat screens on our walls, the internet, Artificial Intelligence, smart phones, social media, and more.
Actually, in H.C. Anderson’s time, penicillin wasn’t even invented yet. So people would die from simple infections. That is an everyday miracle all by itself.
The whole world has changed, in many ways, for the better. And we don’t generally think about it and feel grateful for all these ordinary, everyday things.
Why? Because familiarity makes the extraordinary invisible.
We see the sunrise so often we forget how beautiful it is. We breathe constantly and forget that it is an incredible miracle to be alive.
Gratitude is in a way an exercise in noticing the everyday things.
We don’t need more amazing things in our lives (although more great things are coming). What we really need is to notice the amazing things we all already have. Compared to the past (lets say 100 to 300 years ago), we have a much better standard of living. We have a much longer life expectancy, we have better better health care and faster transportation.
In almost every measurable way, we are significantly better off. There are countless more miracles in our lives these days but we still don’t recognize them as miracles. We see them as everyday things.
So here’s the qutestion:
What can you see in your life as the miracle that it is and not as ordinary thing? I bet there is a lot of miracles in your life.
That’s going to do it for today. I’m Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I’ll be back… tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.
