Are You Missing the Miracle? (On Not Taking Things for Granted)

It's time for a virtual campfire sit down with Terry Weiss. Welcome to Weiss Thoughts. Hey there, everybody, Welcome to another installment of Wis's Thoughts. Boy, that music cuts out fast, doesn't it? Holy MACARONI? Welcome, Welcome, one and all to another episode of Weiss's Thoughts. We're so glad you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today. I'm so happy and I'm so excited because it looks like, at the recording of this podcast here our water is going to be hooked up to the county line tomorrow. I don't know if you if you listen to the last episode of Wis's Thoughts, uh, the previous one to this and which you can find at our website conveniently at Weis's thoughts dot com. I was regaling the tale of my water woes over the past month or so. We've been been without running water in the home for about a month a little bit over a month now here in twenty twenty five because the well had runneth dry. Employed to that sting. But anyway, I digress. It looks like I talked with the gentleman today. There's a crane sitting in the front of the property ready to hook us up to the water line here, and we are all ready to go inside. So I am so super stoked about having running water and being able to just take a shower here instead of bumming it from friends and everything, and you know, being able to use water and do our own laundry again. And all those I know a lot of you out there are going, yeah, whatevertary, We don't really care, big deal. But I'll tell you what, when you're without a utility, that especially here in the United States of America, wherever you may be listening, I hope you have access to easy and reasonable utilities. But here in the United States of America, my friends, you know, you turn on the tap, you expect just good, clean water to come out. You flick a switch, you expect electricity to work. No, yeah, you hop on the computer, you expect the internet. There things that we take, things that we take for granted. And it's just amazing, amazing. And if this has taught me anything over the past month, is that don't take anything anything for granted, my friends. Don't be thankful and grateful for everything in your life, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So what did I want to talk about on today's program of Whyetts as we gather yet again around our virtual campfire. Well, I want to talk about being thankful. I guess that's one of the topics I want to talk to you about today. And I think a lot of us, especially in modern society, we're not thankful as we could be, as we should be. We should be thankful for a lot of things, and we take a lot of things for granted. We really do, just like I was talking about a few moments ago, utilities, you know, having access to clean water for bathing and sanitary reasons and cooking and drinking. It's amazing. It's amazing when when you lose it's like losing one of your five senses. I really really think it is. And it really made me stop and take take stock of things and think about things, you know, the adjustments we had to make here in our household. We're just extraordinary because I've never run into a situation like this. Now. I've talked to people in my in my area because I live in a rural area and we've always had a well, and our well has never run dry, and people in our area are the wells have never run dry. Now, some of you might jump out and say, well, climate change, terry, climate change. Okay, maybe to some extent it has been a dry summer. But you know, in the past twenty five to third years of living here, we've been through droughts before in this area and never never have gone to this extreme, never had it to be to this extreme. Let me take a sip of this. By the way, today's program is brought to you by Lemon Ginger Herbal hot Tea. M Lemon Ginger Herbal hot Tea. Yeah, that's that's today's sponsor. I no, I don't get any money or kickback. I just happened to see it in the in the health food store, and I'm like, oh, Lemon and ginger, let me try that. The tea bag smelled pretty good. Tell you what, folks, it's a winner. It's good and it's so good for you. It's so good for you. Lemon Ginger hot herbal Tea. Look for it on your grocer's shelf. Anyway, what was I saying, Oh, Yeah, we've been through droughts here before in my part of the country, in my area where I live, and never to this degree. Did we run into the difficulties with water. You know, there's been times where we said, okay, you know, don't be doing five loads of laundry a day and running the dishwasher and flushing a toilet on hundred times and taking four hour showers and all that, you know, leaving the water run. We had to ration a little bit, but it never got to the point where my well ran dry. I'm talking dry. And it was to the point, like I mentioned on the last episode of the Weis's Thoughts podcast, where I had paid paid money good old green bags and the last episode, by the way of Waste Thoughts, if you want to hear about that, is called say What. That's the title of it. Say What. Look for that on your favorite podcast provider or over at waste thoughts dot com. But I had paid good money, a few hundred dollars to have three three hundred gallons of water pumped in and it didn't even last a day. And we didn't do anything crazy. We flushed a toilet about a half a dozen times each, you know, for going to the bathroom. It took a quick five minute shower each, you know, within a span amount of time, and ran a dishwasher which only took up about four gallons of water if that, and that folks that washed our hands a few times and that was it and the water was done. We had the water pumped in at like nine thirty ten o'clock on that morning. I remember that day vividly was on a Tuesday, and by that evening around ten thirty eleven, it was back down to almost to dribble again through the system. Good good old tea, herbal tea anyway, so you know, definitely taught me a lesson, and me and the wife discussed it and we said, you know what, no, no, we're not We're not going to go through this. You know, we're gaining in years a little bit and we're not going to go through this kind of nonsense. There's other factors beside the environment that caused the well. There's an organization here that does a certain type of mining and it's a it's a gravel type company, and that I won't mention its name, you know, for de quorum's sake, because I can't. I cannot say for certainty that they are the cause of it, but it certain it can't be helping the area with the water table. But they pump millions upon millions upon millions of gallons every year out of this area by doing their quarry mining and things to make gravel and stone gravel and such. So I'm sure they're not helping things. But again I can't say for any degree of certainty that they're the direct impact. I think it's a combination of all factors and just time, you know, good old Mother nature and earth doing what it's doing. But anyhow, any whot as they say, we are thankfully have the water. County water came down through town, you know, through town, through our rural area, you know, over a decade ago, and the line was sitting there across the road. But it was a substantial expense to pay the county to have them do it, and to have our private contractor come in and run the water line for our house and hook us up at the house and everything. But we're ready to go. Like I said, the big drill is on the front of the the yard. Gentleman is here today with that set it all up, and he said, you will be hooked up. We're going to be here bright and early in the morning between six thirty am and seven am. Do you Is that okay with you? Is that too early? I said, you can come overnight if you want, you, dear friend, we need water, we want water. So we are going to be hooked up forthwith By hopefully around twelve o'clock noon tomorrow Eastern time, we should be all hooked up with water and running in the home and all set to go. And thank Goodness for that. But being thankful, definitely being thankful for things in your life. And I know I've talked about it a few times on the on the show here at Wiy's Thoughts, I've talked about, you know, being thankful, being grateful, being grateful for everything you have. And I think as a society, a lot of us are ungrateful. A lot of us, you know, we take for granted, taking things for granted. Maybe that's what we'll titled the episode of this podcast, taking it for granted, and whether it's a utility, taking for granted your health, relationships okay, your employment, your financial situation, the weather, okay, your vehicle, whatever, don't take things for granted. That's what we're going to talk about. I want to talk to you about on the podcast for Batim, this last experience, especially with the utility of the water, and that, you know, made me think. And again, when I talk about these topics, I like to preface it by saying, I am not standing here on a pulpit. I am not standing here on a soapbox saying I am the almighty and I am perfect this. I am going to lecture you. No, that's not it at all. Okay, that's not it. There's a lot of things and I when I speak to everyone there, when I speak to you, okay you, yes, you you are right there walking down the street listening to this podcast. Are you in the car listening. When I'm talking to you, it's I'm talking with you, not at you. I'm giving you my experiences and things that have happened in my life. And there's a lot of things I've taken for granted over the years. Health, you know, physicality, a having a back that doesn't hurt every so often. Don't you know? As I gain in years, I'm noticing certain aches and pains are starting to come to life. All right, Nature, what cruel joke is this? Did you ever do this? Did you ever do something? And then two or three days later you're like, oh man, my side hurts are, oh my, I'm a little sore on my shoulder or this, and you and you do the you do the detective deductive reasoning. Okay, what did I do yesterday? The day before? What did I do? And you're trying backtrack to figure out what the hell did I do and why am I so sore? Well, if it hasn't happened to you, don't worry, my friend. It will. It will. Uh, it's going, trust me, it'll happen. It's people have said that to me when I was younger, and I'm like, ah wooi fooie, bring that back word fooie. It's one of those things in life. So, you know, don't take for granted your good health and your physicality and your ability to run, jump, see, stretch, bend, lift. Don't take these things for granted, you know. And another thing, don't take your relationships for granted. You know, if you've got a good friend or set of friends in your life, don't take advantage of them. Nurture that relationship. Don't be obviously, don't be abused by them. But don't take those things for granted, my friends, because those things are those are little nuggets of gold, Those are little nuggets of gold and nurture those relationships, enjoy them, and be thankful for them, because I'll tell you what. You know, friends sometimes are few and far between, and if you've got a good, trustworthy friend or group of friends, I should say, count yourself very very thankful. Count your lucky stars. Seriously. I mean it in all seriousness, because there's a lot of people in the world that will use you and abuse you, use you for a whether they can get a head in the workplace or in life, and take advantage of your good nature. So if you've got a good set of friends, you know, if you've got a good relationship with your mother, father's sibling, brothers, sister, what have you, Cherish it. That's all I can say. Cherish it definitely, because that's important. That's extremely important. The other thing is if you if you are good financially, if you have been blessed you know to let's say, either inherit money or been able to save money or made wise investments, and you're in a good financial situation. Don't take that for granted because I'll tell you what, there is a large section of the US population that would love to trade trade places with you in a minute for that. There's there's people out there that are struggling, and if you have the ability to help others, okay, do that. If you if you are if you have been extremely well blessed financially and you've got enough money to live on comfortably, and you can help out here, maybe by giving to a local food shelter or a charity and you can spend a few you know, extra pennies in doing that, animal shelters and things like that. If you can help out, don't be stingy, help out a little, you know, give what you can help in any way you can help your fellow human being, help your fellow living thing. Those are things that me and the missus try to do as much as we can now. I mean, take care of your bills and your family and everything immediate family first. But if you're able to, if you have the ways and the means and you're able to help, please help because there's people out there that are really really struggling, and now more than ever, they need your help. And there's organizations out there that need help. And if you can't do it with monetary money, if you can give some of your time, that's great. Give some time. That's excellent too, absolutely, okay. I mean I try to volunteer when and I'm able to, and the wife does the same thing. Her kids do things like that too. It's just kind of how they were raised and they've kind of assimilated that from us, learn that from us growing up, and our grandchildren now are even getting into volunteer and helping out when they can too. There's a lot of organizations out there. Do your research, you know, so you don't get scammed by, you know, because there's unscrupulous people and organizations out there that love to scam and say they're going to help and they don't. So do that if you can. You know, don't take for granted that Hey, you know, we've been blessed, and you know, don't take that for granted because your situation could change in a heartbeat. Your situation can change in a nanosecond, you know, if you're blessed enough to have like we talked about earlier in the beginning of the program here on white thoughts, have utilities that are working, and you know, you flick on a light switch, you have light, you have electricity, have clean running water, you have good internet access, heat in the winter, et cetera. Don't take those things for granted. You know, outages happen. Things happen, So don't be wasteful, you know, be good stewards. Don't be just oh yeah, just leave the water run and leave all the light in the house, you know, crank up to heat the ninety don't you know. Don't take that stuff for granted. You want to definitely mind your p's and queues because the universe has a way of evening things out at some point, So don't do that. But and your health, your overall health. If you're able to walk, talk, see here, taste, smell, you have, all your extremities and your abilities and all your faculties. Don't take that for granted, my friends, because there's people out there that either through an accident or no fault of their own, maybe maybe it'd be a birthday fact or something. Don't have all that. Don't take your senses and your good health, overall good health for granted. Don't destroy it by destroying your body with drugs and alcohol. I know, and this is not a PSA, Okay, I'm just saying everything in moderation. If you want to indulge with a glass of wine or beer or whatever's that's totally if you're of a legal age, that's totally your your discretion. If you're an adult and of legal age, absolutely, but think about it. Think about it. When I was younger, Believe me, I didn't think about it. I went out and I used to get wrecked almost every weekend, sometimes more than every weekend. I abused my body a little bit when I was younger, and uh, thankfully there is no long term or ill effects, thank goodness. But don't take that, you know, your overall good health and anything for granted, because there's people out there that would trade with you in a heartbeat to have great health, or to have all their extremities or you know, be able to see, hear, taste, touch, feel sense, what have you. Don't take those things for granted. You know, there's an old expression nothing is guaranteed in life except death and taxes. And you know, it's kind of a truism if you think about it. Kind of is a truism because you never know what tomorrow may bring, you know, so don't take for granted your situation because you never know, you never know what's going to happen from one day to the next. So just when you get up every day, just be thankful for what you have and don't take for granted, because there definitely are other people out there that are worse off than you. And if you can be a force for good and a voice, a voice and a force for change in a positive way, doing it in a peaceful, positive way, by all means do that. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there, and remember to see a change in the world, you have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. Stop by the website Whis's Thoughts dot com just to make sure you spell my name right Wyse Wis's Thoughts dot com, and hey, leave us a positive rating and review on your favorite podcast provider. Won't you tell your friends, tell your family, tell your pets about White's Thoughts And I look forward to gathering yet again around the virtual campfire with you real soon. Take care as