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Today’s Gratitude
Katie Wearing • April 30, 2020
A Very Poignant Gratitude
Hi everyone!!
So, I have been feeling frustrated at myself and being my own worst critic because I haven’t blogged since last week. I want to follow my lovely friend’s advice and try to think more simply. I hope you’re all doing okay and keeping busy during this unusual period.
In a previous post, I have written about a book that I have started reading and now, I’m 89% of the way through it. It really makes you think. Everyone is taught about what went on during WW2 and how the Jews were treated in the concentration camps but when you read it on a personal basis, it brings it home more. It reminds you that these are human beings just like you and I, living ordinary lives and their lives were literally turned upside down, twice/three time’s over. Things that most of us take for granted, having clean homes, food and not just a piece of bread and watered down soup and covered in lice and goodness knows what else! I’m able to go to bed when I choose, a bed that is comfortable and warm while those innocent people slept on wooden boards with a dirty old rag. Having the option of whether I wanted to read and when as it was forbidden in the camps.
The way they were treated by the guards... spat at, clubbed in the ribs and killed even, just for daring to glance a look at them. They were never called by their names, only a number that was inked on the skin. It’s scary to know that those guards were once ordinary citizens living mundane jobs, many who were young and who once strolled side by side those who they treat like a piece of dirt... you just never know what the person next to you is truly capable of until they brainwashed and have the power.
There is a line in the book... ‘...as they were watching me leave... they were smiling! Can you believe it? They were doomed to die, and they were smiling.’ This made me feel sad but extremely thankful that I know that I am in a safe home and when I wake up, my parents will be here and alive. We don’t have to feel afraid. To read a young girl say this saddens my heart knowing that she never saw her mother or sister ever again. It’s incomprehensible. Her mother and sister must have felt like they were finally free from everything that they had endured and no longer would they had to suffer.
No one should feel afraid, alone, or be relieved to be no longer suffering and it makes me feel so grateful that I’m not in this predicament. It breaks my heart when I see people suffering whether it’s their home life, suffering at the hands of evil or ill health and selfishly, I just want to eradicate suffering. I’m thankful that I am able to be in contact with my loved ones and hopefully be there for them.
Anyway, I feel like I’ve gone a bit deep and possibly a little sad but I’m so thankful for being fortunate in life, having what I have in life, a nice clean, safe home and food. Being able to express myself and to do as I please when I choose. Thank you for reading this blog post and I hope you will be back to see my next post soon. Take care and stay safe.
Love Katie aka DinkyKt ❤️
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