What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Toilet paper. A luxury I cannot live without.
“Toilet paper isn’t a luxury” you might say. Well I remember about 3 years ago when all of the stores ran out of toilet paper. It was scary. What is the alternative? I am a pretty modern sophisticated guy but I still need to poop. What do you do when those white rolls run out?
Electricity is another luxury that I cannot live without. Literally. I cannot live without it. It heats my home and cooks my food and cools my perishable food and lights my way and connects me to the world. I’m writing this on an electrical device, yes it runs on batteries but those batteries were charged by an electrical outlet that is powered by an electrical grid that I do not understand or maintain. The water in my taps and in my toilet are brought to me by electricity. A recent power outage I saw our cities utility workers scrambling to power a sewage pump that pushes my poop to the city poop processing station. Electricity is something I don’t want to ever be without.
80 some years ago it was still a new thing and people and homes were without it. Now we are completely dependent on it.
It may be that we think of as common place and a base part of life, things we take for granted are really luxuries that we should be grateful for.
Clean water is a struggle for many who live on this planet. It is a luxury for me to drink water from a tap in my house. Brought to me by electricity (again). I don’t have to fear any bugs or poisons in my water. That is not the case everywhere. I am grateful for the luxury of clean water.
Toilet paper, electricity and clean water, 3 luxuries that I cannot live without. I never want to take them for granted.
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