Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
The greatest gift is the gift of life. Of the huge number of possible numbers of sperm and eggs and the titanic millions of combinations of genes it is incredible that the combination that has emerged is us.
We live on a planet in the Goldilocks zone, we live in an ecosystem that is perfect for us and at climatic latitudes where we can thrive. Furthermore we can read and write, how many millions are denied this simple pleasure because of lack of educational opportunities or simply being born at a different time, and if you are reading this now on a screen, how wonderful is it to be living in the time of the internet!
Humans as we know them have been around for a couple of hundred thousand years, we have opportunities to read and write from our liberal educational system and books are common and cheap. For me the greatest gift is being born in an age when we can read the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Narnia and other great works. We live in a blessed age and that is a great gift.