CHAPTER 11
Grateful
Most of us have grown up with parents who taught us to be grateful. They told us to be thankful for the food on the table, the roof over our head and for our good health. As a child, you probably didn’t pay much attention to gratitude. I know I didn’t. If I wanted the latest pair of trainers, the ‘you should be grateful that you have trainers to wear’ or ‘think about the people who don’t have any feet’ perspective didn’t pack a big enough punch to drum the point home.
Sure, I had enough empathy to feel sorry for a person without feet. But in my world I didn’t run into enough of them to make me realise how lucky I was to have my own. I rarely saw their frustrations and I didn’t feel their pain. So that line of thought ...
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