STOP!!

Stop! How often do you think about how fortunate you are? Honestly, how often do you stop and imagine yourself in other, less fortunate people´s shoes? Have you ever imagined what life might be like for that person walking by outside, as you´re sitting in that coffee shop having a nice hot cup of coffee, waiting for your friend to arrive? That woman just walking by for example, maybe she´s got a life much like your own ....

OR maybe she has been unemployed for such a long time that she finds it too hard to believe in herself and the "thousand possibilities and positive challenges" life should bring and that she desperately has been waiting for, for ages, or maybe she´s on her way to the unemployment office,  ashamed even for the situation she´s in, feeling like an outsider, trying to hide the state of things to everyone she knows. Or maybe she has a husband who is unemployed and depressed, maybe she works three shifts as she has got many mouths to feed.....

She might also feel lost and lonely, no friends, no family and nobody to love, who would love her in return.  Or maybe she just got the news that she is very seriously ill, that it could be fatal, or that she has got just a short time to live....she might be thinking of her small children at home, how she will ever be able to leave them and what she should tell them and when, and how she ever will be able to live through something that ends in the inevitable....

Or maybe her child was in an accident and everything that was normal just one hour ago will never ever be that again ... in fact ... it will never happen again...

Or maybe she lost a child today ... or yesterday..... just like that ... SNAP!