OT: The Things We Take for Granted....

[Renegade 13]

Yesterday afternoon, I was trying to get my mom's snowmobile running. Thinking there may be some water or ice in the gas lines/gas tank, I bought and put some methyl hydrate (gas line antifreeze) into the tank. Now, when I was opening the little bottle, some of the methyl hydrate splashed up onto my face, and nearly in my eyes...if I hadn't somehow seen the stuff coming, my eyes would have gotten the splash, not my eyelids.

Why am I telling you this?? Well methyl hydrate, if swallowed, can cause blindness and death. I'm sure that if you get it in your eyes, it can also cause blindness. To be honest, it scared me how close I might have come to being blinded by such a seemingly innocent thing. It made me think of all the things that most people take for granted, such as eyesight. It got me to thinking...what would I do if I couldn't see?? How would it change my life, and how does it affect all those people who ARE blind??

Simply put, it made me very grateful for the things that most people take for granted, and don't even think about on an everyday basis. Things like eyesight, hearing, and other things like those. It made me realize that we shouldn't take such things for granted, that at any moment we could lose them, to something so simple....like trying to get a parent's snowmobile running properly.

I know that I won't take for granted the things I have, which I guess makes my little accident a good thing. Because who knows when it may all be taken away??