Putting It In Perspective
I've been very busy complaining about my 6-week-old artificial knee: it keeps me from doing any of my favorite activities, it requires hours per day of ridiculous physical therapy exercises, it hurts like hell much of the time, et cetera et cetera yadda yadda yadda.
In this morning's New York Times I found an article about an ex-motorcyclist competing in a footrace on some familiar ground in southern Morocco which helped put my endless whinging into perspective. It's not as if I'm not entitled to complain a bit; it's more that on the continuum of complain-worthy things that happen in life, mine are not so bad, really.
I'm off to do my morning range-of-motion exercises. Here's the link:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...es-sables.html
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