{"id":1024,"date":"2022-01-27T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:15:37","slug":"my-blog-a-gift-that-is-not-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/my-blog-a-gift-that-is-not-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift that is not for everyone."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A gift is usually something we offer to another person not because they asked for it but because we wanted to. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">a gift<\/span> is the act, right, or power of giving. It\u2019s <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">something we voluntarily give to another person without expecting a return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This past week we\u2019ve had extreme weather conditions including way too much snow in Athens. \u201cWhat a gift this was,\u201d said a friend of mine. <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">\u201cWe were given a 3-day gift.\u201d<\/span> This got me thinking. We couldn\u2019t drive anywhere, had to stay inside, schools were closed, kids had a blast playing with the snow \u2013 something they rarely see in Athens. Yes, it was definitely a wonderful, fun gift\u2026for some. For those of us who were healthy and didn\u2019t need to get to the doctor or worse yet to the hospital. For those of us who had a roof over our heads and didn\u2019t need to look for a shelter. For those of us who had heat, electricity and water. For those of us who had food on our plates. For those of us who had their loved ones nearby. <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">Yes, for all of us it was an amazing gift!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">But how about the others?<\/span> How about the people whose houses were left without electricity or heat for long hours even days? How about the elderly or sick who live alone and had no help? How about those motorists who were stranded in the snow for more than 8 hours on the Athens\u2019 ring road? I bet these people will not have fond memories of the extreme weather conditions. And I bet it\u2019ll be hard for them to consider snow as a gift. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>So while enjoying our gifts, whatever they may be for each one of us, let\u2019s keep a few things in mind:<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, let\u2019s remember to <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">be grateful for what we have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">not forget that nothing is a given.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">recognize that there\u2019s always two sides of a coin.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A gift is usually something we offer to another person not because they asked for it but because we wanted to. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog-itsmylife-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}