Do you take your life for granted without even realising?!

I think sometimes people take there lives for granted because they get stuck in a routine and forget about life all together.

For instance, if you work 9-5 everyday, have dinner at a set time, watch tv, have a bath, read a book and go to sleep, you aren't going to be thinking as your falling asleep how much you are glad you are alive, how if you died tomorrow it wouldn't matter, if you did think like that at all you'd think how awful it would be if you did die tomorrow because your life today was a repeat of every other day.

I think also people get so wrapped up in their own realities that they forget about the gift of life. Things that make people depressed or bored with their lives due to where they live or money or how they live and therefore always need sedating through drugs or alcohol etc.

Furthermore, only a few lucky people can live life how they really want. There is so much control in society nowadays and the bombarding of capitalism and especially with media, where they make us more interested in other peoples lives (celebrity culture) than our owns that we forget that we have our own gift of life.

We are always wanting something more, something we have, we need something to make us happy to make us realise that our life is worth living. And when we get that something we are looking for the next something.

But then again, if every person wasn't to take their life for granted, how would we develop? We need people to be stuck in a routine in order for economic growth, to keep the population generated etc.

I think very few people get to realise the true gift of life and therefore they take it for granted without even realising.

I think that's why they say that when you turn 50 or 60 you are reborn, because you realise, no matter what position your in, how much money you've got, what you've done with your life, it never actually mattered all that you gained were memories that will die when you do.

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