This photo.
A makeshift hospital for treating wounded soldiers after the Battle of Antietam.
It’s good, I think, to remember what we have, even when we don’t feel like our lives are going as smoothly as we might like.
Whatever you’re struggling with, whatever isn’t perfect in your life, whatever business or service or system or whatever isn’t up to snuff by your definitions, you can always remember that you’re not trying to recuperate from war injuries in the most make-shifty of make-shift tent hospitals after the most-horrific of battles.
Try to have some appreciation for all that is in your life. Try on a perspective that allows you to see all the blessings of living in this time now. (And be grateful the Union won. Holy smokes, what a different world we’d live in had the Confederates won. Yeesh.)
FWIW, the soldiers of the Civil War were the GenX-type of generation, the inaptly named (later in life) Gilded Generation, born 1822-1842.
