Taken For Granted

Why is it, I always forget what I have ...
until it's been taken away from me?

For example, my 99% painless life is such a gift
and I'm not thankful for it.
I only remember to thank God for the use of my 10 fingers,
when my left middle finger gets an infection underneath my fingernail
and I can't grip anything tightly with that hand,
or when I accidentally and clumsily get wintermelon under my thumbnail so that it bleeds
and it also gets infected
because I decided to wash dishes without a glove or a water proof band-aid.
But seriously, how do you put a band-aid under your thumbnail?
And of course, it hurts to pressure that thumb
and I've been washing things with my thumb sticking out
like an awkward baby princess who gets mixed up with her pinky and thumb.

I also forget what a blessing it is to have the use of my 10 fingers and 2 hands
and the ability to play piano,
until I watch something like this:

And my heart starts clogging up my throat and my eyes sting.

I'm sure that's not all I've taken for granted.

What have you taken for granted these past few days, weeks, months, years even?

Mizzoria~