30 Days of Truth: Day 25

I am wondering how someone is meant to answer this.  I guess if you had a really interesting or tragic life it might be easier.  If I was a drug addict at one point in my life I might be able to say “Because I stopped taking drugs!”, or if I’d been in a horrific accident and had life saving surgery I could talk about the people who saved me.

No such luck.  I’ve had a rather ordinary life without anything major standing out that makes me think it’s that ONE thing that is the reason I’m still alive.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons I’m still alive, like…

• My husband hasn’t gotten sick enough of my PMS yet to kill me.
• I don’t play with guns.
• I don’t take naps on train tracks.
• I’ve never handcuffed myself to a cement brick, jumped in the Maas and tried to get myself free.
• Nobody has never tried to strangle me.  Threatened, but not tried!
• I’ve not developed a taste for crack.
• I stopped playing in traffic.
• I never go on the roof of tall buildings.
• I rarely play with matches.
• I try not to run with scissors.
• … or walk down stairs while eating a lollypop.
• I don’t swallow chicken bones.

I’m pretty sure they are at least some of the reasons I’m still alive today.