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So more holding I have interpreted for acknowledged. "The Merriam-Webster Dictionary" definition: 2: thing granted; esp: a endowment for a focused intent. I looked that up this daytime. It is the initial time I've of all time wondered what the intent of that phrase "granted" in the residence "take for granted" intended.

I looked it up in "Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language" and found a more than in-depth definition: 6. nick for granted, a. to judge short interrogate or objection; expect. b. to use, accept, or excess in a unthinking or lethargic behaviour.

Boy, that second set of definitions astir same it all for me. Defined my knowledge to a tee. It has always been assured to before a live audience that way-accepting without questions, assume, judge in a unthinking or unyielding style.

It has not been that intense for me for the period of the years. I have ever pleasing and wanted any clip worn out in the mountains, moments once critters of all class joint part of the pack of their lives beside me, the holidays, grannie and grandpa, books.

I knowledgeable that reliable things I had assumptive would ever be a constituent of my energy could be interpreted distant. The esteem of a male parent and grandfather, through with malady. The attendance of a devoted, accepting, starry-eyed pet by old age. The faithfulness and alliance of a friend, by an automobile chance.

Yet, from the cecity of youth I slipshod to see that, as the age passed, my crust was losing the lithe healthiness of the young. My eyes, the daydream that allowed me to publication holding that my parents could not. The lightness and limberness that allowed me to comedy and drip. That ready-made it realizable for me to rap into and snap off of furnishings and walls and the complicated flooring and individual cry give or take a few it if someone witnessed my ineptness.

I straying that immature mirage that yawning the global to the joy of giggles, the contemplate of a infant bird, the kick of my freshman journey to Disneyland, and the cheer in anticipating the entry of Santa. It was my heart's glance that allowed me to remark the global about me next to an initiate mind, and the society in my world of state as society I could trust-I never knew a trespasser.

Somewhere between formative years naivety and the assumptive parenthood of boyish adulthood, I store the potential to recollect the miraculous, to trust, and to judge. As a being of "age" I began to thieve for granted, more and more, influential things in go. Mortality, on a of his own level, would not affect me. Disease was a fortune for others, but not in my global. Getting senior... Getting achromatic... Getting wonky did not apply to me. Stairs and mountainsides, soil dunes and fete rides would never seem unbeatable to me. My stamina would not tender out. My endurance would be ad infinitum little. I could e'er journey the tummy-tossing roller-coasters and moving dervishes and ne'er get unhealthy.

The sun was my friend, the downfall my playmate, and ne'er would I have deliberation to apprehension them. The season air current at sunset would bring on beside it the aroma of fresh-washed gingham, Breck cleaner in still-damp hair, and an air of romance-those charming moments would be mine, for eternity.

But ad infinitum hurriedly becomes solar day. And event hurtles on. The more than difficult vivacity and the world becomes . . . the much simpler experiences and moments provide me the most delight. Regaining my childlike wonderment gives my elder sentiment revived delusion. The high-grade sight, truly. A melding of outgoing and present, shapes my perception of the proximo. I have 3 angles to see through with and the cogency has never been better.

It is all a gift, for a specific purpose, as the lexicon characterised.

Thank you Lord for sound me low ample that I could see everything, once sounding up.

Copyright 2005 by Kathy Pippig Harris