Life Is Like a Deck of Cards

Contemplating life’s deck, we uncover the uncomfortable truth of our persistent yearning for just a bit more. From the comforts of North Knoxville to the staggering realities of global poverty, this episode challenges the notion of contentment and the rare moment of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, we already have our fair share. Engage with stories that tug at your self-awareness and take a moment to reflect on whether you'd risk shuffling the deck of life again. Can we accept and appreciate the cards we've been given, or do we continue to chase the elusive peace that comes with being truly satisfied?

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Here For the Memories

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here for the memories , thought-provoking audio memoir
shorts filled with stories,humor, anecdotes and commentary
on social, cultural, businessand religious issues.
Whatever Lyndon remembers andthinks will entertain, challenge
and inform is a possiblesubject.

(00:21):
A possible subject.
The collection of memoriesabout one's life allows for the
development and refinement of asense of self, including who one
is, how one has changed andwhat one might be like in the
future.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Greetings and salutations.
This is Lyndon Wolfe and youhave found my audio memoir, not
a podcast.
It's called here for theMemories.
Love having visitors, glad youjoined and I hope you visit
often.
Life is like a deck of cards.
It might not be brazen, blatantentitlement, but it gets too

(00:57):
close for comfort.
You know, while immersed in asea of great things, waves of
blessings upon blessings,drowning in opportunity and
relative affluence, we findourselves wanting and wishing
not for glaring leaps in theimprovement of our circumstances
.
That would be too obviouslyself-absorbed when we consider
those that are less fortunate,but small, incremental, just a

(01:21):
wee little bit more.
These, if only serve as adeflating reminder that what we
have and where we are in lifeare just not enough to get us
over the hump of happiness, theceaseless climb towards
contentment, to that endlesslyelusive place where we say not

(01:41):
only is it enough, but it ismore than my fair share, or I
have been given infinitely morethan I deserve.
For example, as much as I wouldlike to take credit for it, I
cannot say that being born acitizen of the United States was
one of my better choices.
I had nothing to do with it.
Yet here I am in a land whereeven the poor are rich by global

(02:04):
standards.
I could have been born and livein Mali or Bangladesh, chad or
South Sudan, where the vastmajority of people live below
the international poverty level.
Does anyone listening to thesound of my voice know what the
international poverty level is?
I know these things can berather abstract and sometimes

(02:27):
they're merely creations orfabrications of bureaucratic
economists, but the number thathas been established for the
international poverty level isfrightening it is $2.15 per day.
Let me say that again forimpact, not just for you, but
also for myself.

(02:47):
The international poverty levelis $2.15 per day, not our money
.
We drop that much and neverstop and stoop to pick it up.
In the countries I just listed,the vast majority, in some
cases 80 to 90% of people livebelow that level.
There's also what they callmulti-dimensional poverty, where

(03:09):
a lack of education or accessto infrastructure makes you
poorer but, in a different sense, still poor.
For example, if you're asuccessful farmer who makes more
than $2.15 per day, but youdon't have enough potable
running water available oryou're illiterate or you lack
adequate health care, you may beconsidered to be living in

(03:32):
multidimensional poverty.
Yep, I was such a smart embryothat I decided I would be better
off living and being raised inNorth Knoxville by rock-solid
parents oblivious to thenecessities of food, shelter and
clothing readily at my disposal.
No, what we had was notanywhere close to the lavish or

(03:53):
luxurious, but compared to theseplaces I was filthy rich, and I
still am.
But yet I want a little bitmore.
It's just not enough.
No, I'm not flagrant about mylust, but deep inside my soul
there's a gnawing that keepstugging at my contentment and

(04:14):
says but if only Look at Joe,with a few more good breaks and
amid a deluge of blessings, I amnot satisfied.
Nor is anyone that I know, as Ilong for something that is not
the answer to my cravings.
If you have any EQ orself-awareness, you must admit,

(04:34):
at least privately, that yousuffer from the same malady.
I don't remember or repeat itoften enough, but I've often
given the example that if lifewere a deck of cards, then I
would not take the card I haveprobably a king or queen, I'd
say king and put it back in thedeck, shuffle and redraw.

(04:54):
The odds of me having somethingbetter than my king, for
example, is very remote.
This means I need to becognizant that if my life were
to be done over from scratchfrom conception, the odds of me
being as fortunate as I am areminuscule, even less than the
redrawing of the card that youhave been given from the deck of

(05:17):
life.
Think about it.
Are you grateful?
I need to be more grateful.
Do you see all the blessings,all the good things around you,
or is there a cloud in everysilver lining?
Are you more caught up in whatyou don't have than what you do?
Sometimes we just need toreevaluate, reassess.

(05:41):
This is Lyndon Wolfe.
This is here for the Memories.
I'm so glad you stopped by.
Keep making memories, treasurethem and see the good in every
circumstance.

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