Nov 19, 20216 min read

12 True luxuries that are taken for granted

Taking things for granted has become second nature to human beings once we feel comfortable in life or in any situation. We get so busy running the rat race that we often tend to ignore the most important things in life and take them for granted.

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Below are 12 such true luxuries we often take for granted in life.

Family and friends

The result of getting busy with life is often reflected in how much we tend to oversee our families and friends.

We often put off spending time with them and compromise that time to do something work-related.

We fail to understand that work will always be there, no matter how much work you do today, there will always be more waiting for you the next day, but the time you could have chosen to spend with family and friends often doesn’t come back.

Prioritize your friends and family, spend as much time as possible with them, and create as many memories as possible. Time is limited in all our lives.

Your health

Youth and health is one thing all of us wish we had more of once we’ve lost it. Good health is very important for a fulfilled life. With today’s fast-paced and junk food eating lifestyle majority of us lead, it becomes very hard to maintain good health.

Late-night working or partying sessions, irregular sleep patterns, sleep deprivation, excess digital exposure, addiction to social media, unhealthy food choices are the main causes for bad health.

Prioritize your health and get good exercise every now and then, work for a few restricted hours, make ergonomic choices for working conditions, create less stressful situations for yourself. Good health is a gift that shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Access to information

We live in the information age right. The power of information is so great now that anything and everything is available for everyone’s access at a click of a button.

The internet and access to information have opened up a huge wave of opportunities to a ton of us. We should be grateful to be in the generation that has made this possible and make the right use of it.

The ability to travel

With the evolution of the means of transportation, traveling to other countries and new places has become so easy in this generation right now and it’s a boon.

Travelling has opened up so many opportunities right now when it comes to career choices, education options, and many more.

Traveling helps you grow and learn about different cultures and gain worldly knowledge. It opens up your thinking process and expands your way of thinking and way of life. Travel helps you evolve as a human being and be a better influence on people.

Time

Time is a limited resource for all of us, but this is the one thing we always take for granted.

We spend our time unconsciously doing unnecessary and unwanted things. Treat your time with the utmost value.

No one else will do it for you. If you don’t value your time no one else will.

Spend your time wisely and make good choices, use your time to develop and grow every day.

Access to clean water and a warm bed at night

Homelessness is a very big problem in a majority of countries right now. Clean water, a limited resource available in nature, should be treated with great care and saved and utilized minimally.

There are countless regions that are water-deprived and struggling to find a source of water, when you have the source available for you, do not take it for granted and wastewater.

Be conscious of your usage of water and be mindful about saving it for tomorrow. Another privilege that’s overlooked is having a warm bed at night to sleep in.

With the change climatic conditions, having a place to call your home and having a safe and warm place to sleep in, is a dream for many in our country and a privilege that’s taken for granted by many.

We should be grateful to have a roof over our heads, clean water, and a safe place to sleep at night.

Medicine

Having good and affordable access to healthcare is a privilege that’s taken for granted by almost all of us.

We often joke about having medical insurances to cover for any injuries that we cause to ourselves because of our ignorance. But the majority of people in our country do not have access to good and affordable medicine.

With the growing amount of illness and diseases surrounding us due to our lifestyle choices, health care and medicine play an important role in keeping our health and body in good condition.

Do not take your access to medicine and healthcare for granted. It is truly a privilege that not many of us can afford.

Community

Being part of a community creates a sense of belonging in many of us. It is in our nature to feel a sense of belonging. Having a community of friends, family, peers, and well-wishers, helps you thrive and be your best self. You get a sense of confidence when you feel a sense of belonging.

Our generation believes in living alone, doing things alone, and have the preconceived notion that they are better off being alone, but feeling a sense of belonging cannot be matched with anything else.

Being part of a community and giving back to your community fuels your willpower and builds you up as a human being, so do not take this for granted.

Nature

We only have one earth. Nature has become a depleting resource. Development of infrastructure and depletion of nature are happening simultaneously around us and at an uncontrollable speed.

Many of us no longer have the privilege of looking up at the sky to find stars in cities due to the light pollution caused in cities. Nature is our most beautiful resource. It has so many wonders to aww us with. Do not take the conservation of nature for granted.

Our future generations need those clear beaches we always dream about while we’re working at our desks.

Choice

Having original opinions and thoughts is a true privilege for our generation. But in order to develop a sense of opinion, you need to have the privilege of choice.

We are the luckiest generation to be presented with so many choices and options at our disposal.

Having the right of choice is still a privilege for many in rural areas, but when you are given the freedom to have your right of choice, do not take that for granted. Use it and make the most of it.

Self-expression

The 21st century is the greatest of all generations, it’s the greatest time for self-expression.

Everything is out in the open, people are thriving to be free of judgment, express and be their true selves without the fear of judgment and without being scared of the government or laws.

It is truly a great time for self-expression right now, do not take this luxury for granted.

Physical contact

Having gone through the pandemic over the past year and a half, the importance of physical contact has been emphasized.

Having been deprived of physical contact from loved ones during the pandemic has shown us how much of a privilege the sense of touch and physical contact is to human beings.

We feel a sense of love and affection through touch and that’s a true privilege to be able to feel and sense that. Never ever take this for granted.

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