Do we take the simple things for granted?

As you've probably gathered from my previous two posts, i have been doing my biology coursework for the past two days and i must say that it is the single most energy draining piece of work in life :\!!!!!!
As i worked through it into the night, it kept eating away into my sleep time and literally left me with next to nothing... i woke up the following morning feeling as if i would faint at any given moment because i was literally just completely out of it... ahhhh never have i valued the importance of sleep so highly! and it made me think, about how i take my sleep for granted every other day, how i take for granted the relaxing and the not-a-care-in-the-world feel that it gives to me as soon as i lie down and stretch my legs... ahh heaven!

But thinking about that, it made me think in general about how i take other things for granted... a few months back i injured my leg in a freak accident at the IT centre at college (warning: description may be overly exaggerated)... but long story short:
-i sat down on wheely chair
-i pulled my self up in to the desk using my hands (might as well abuse the power of the wheel)...
-as i did so... ..my knee went smack into the metal leg that was underneath the table
as a result:
-i couldn't walk for 3-5 days
-i couldn't even bend my leg for 3-5days

but yeah, that's my sad story, but honestly... being in such blinding pain almost makes you appreciate normality; a world where pain is non-existent! All i could think about during the whole ordeal was about how much i miss the ability to walk; something that we all do everyday but never stop to think about how we would feel if the ability to walk just disappeared one day and how it would change our lives. I don't mean to insult any people that do have physical disabilities, i mean people who have been disabled since birth have nothing to compare it to and so this argument doesn't really apply so much, and those who have had the misfortune of being disabled later on in life can probably empathise with what i am saying here... the value of having something for so long... and then to have it taken away...
i mean in a situation like that, you probably will say to yourself "ahhh i should've made the most of this..." but it is so easy to say that in hindsight...

I suppose what i am really trying to say is, every now and then, we should pause and take a moment to think about and appreciate all the things that we do have in this world because we never know when those things that we take for granted could be taken away from us...*awkward silence* loolz

Hope that thought makes you feel a lot better about your lives and what you have around you... as for me... I'm gonna get me some sleep :-D!

nyt