{"id":396,"date":"2016-03-16T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwithington.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2016-03-16T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:50:19","slug":"something-to-complain-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/something-to-complain-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Something To Complain About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rubbish\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What are you complaining about today?<\/span><\/p>\n

Unsightly litter strewn across the pavement, wildly blowing around in the breeze?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Complaining\"<\/a>
“I want to complain”<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The delayed train which made you arrive late at work?<\/span><\/p>\n

Those daily traffic jams on the M6 motorway?<\/span><\/p>\n

You didn’t get the result you hoped for in today’s budget speech?<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me share a little from what I read this morning…<\/span><\/p>\n

A man on a commuter train kept gazing out the window and saying, \u2018Wonderful; just wonderful!\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was he looking at?<\/span><\/p>\n

Run-down apartment buildings and rubbish spilling over onto the pavement!<\/span><\/p>\n

After hearing him say \u2018Wonderful\u2019 four or five times, the lady beside him remarked, \u2018It doesn\u2019t look too wonderful to me\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereupon the man replied, \u2018I\u2019ve been blind for the past thirty years. But through the skill of a surgeon, the generosity of a donor, and a corneal transplant, I\u2019ve been given the gift of two new eyes. And to me, everything I see is wonderful.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0~ Courtesy of UCB Word For Today.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It puts it into perspective, doesn’t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

So what is there to complain about today?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Snowdrop\"<\/a>
“It’s wonderful. Just wonderful!”<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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