Here's a gratitude game I play with myself.
I pick a modern object and ruminate over how much history went into making it possible. Take this rig: the metal components come from tens of thousands of years of metal-craft. The paints and rubbers come from synthetic versions of natural dyes and fibres that cost hundreds of thousands of lives to industrialize. Then there's the engineering, and the distribution challenges...
We live on the shoulders of so many.
And we take *such* gifts for granted.
@MLClark Love this game, and I also think about which of these things "stick". We've come up with a lot of enabling technology. Some is flash in the pan, other stuff endures for decades/centuries. The monograph, stairs*, fax machine, qwerty keyboard, basic wheelchair. Could fill a book...
*stairs are even deadly but we keep 'em around.
@b4cks4w
Yes! The fleeting nature of new tech is also a humbling marvel.
(And I totally hear you on the stairs. I still have to tell myself, when I'm at the top of a steep set, that this is *not* how I'm going to die today. 😅 Good motivator for descending slowly!)