A speaker recalls using a bucket to flush a toilet during a 2019 trip to the Dominican Republic, arguing that small exposures to different living conditions shift how we see everyday luxuries like working plumbing. Gratitude grows when we notice what we normally take for granted.
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Boom. That's something to be grateful for. Or like, let's say you're driving past someone and they need a donation or change, and you just spare, you know, a little whatever. But that's something to be grateful for because you had the opportunity to do that. Let's say you're living and you go to the bathroom and you have to flush your toilet. You could be grateful for that because you can. I literally, when I went to Dominican Republic, I had to get a bucket of water just to flush the toilet and pour the water into the toilet, the flesh, because they didn't have plumbing in 2019. Like, this is literally a couple years ago before the pandemic. Right? This is not 1920s. Right. And having that perspective and broadening your horizon is so important, because if all you know is what you know, for example, growing up doing projects, people from the outside, it's like, damn, John, you must have had it so hard. You know, you're with your mom and everything, but as a kid, all you know is what you know.