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So, I want to wish all of you OD folk a Happy Christmas. Even if it isn’t a day that is exactly spiritually important to me, I still enjoy the time with my family and appreciating that I’ve been blessed with another year with them. Having allowed myself an opportunity for objective reflection over the last few days, I’m reminded that I do live a pretty astonishingly awesome life.

For starters I have a well-paying job in which I spend roughly half of my time goofing off and having debates over issues like whether a suit coat and blazer are the same thing (they aren’t). Enjoying this job is important since I spend more of my waking hours there than anywhere else.

I have parents that are still very healthy at 60 and who love me unconditionally. I have a circle of close friends that I value a lot – several of these friends adore me to an irrational level and imagine that I’m far wiser than I actually am. I have a beautiful and amazing girlfriend who somehow never tires of talking to me and is always eager to find ways that the two of us can spend more time together.

I have the ability to talk to people all across the world whenever I want to, more or less for free, something that no person in the history of humanity could say a generation ago. I get to take multiple vacations every year and get to travel lots of fun places, not to mention the travel I get to enjoy during my work (most recently a trip to South Beach in Miami!). I’m in good health and haven’t had any illness to speak of in years and wake up every day free of pain. I can afford to eat most any food I want, whenever I want, including regularly paying other people to prepare my food for me. I have great sex regularly with a beautiful girl and have somehow managed to live to 26 without ever once having sex that I regretted. I have the ability to access nearly any form of media that I would like – be it a book I want to read or a movie that I want to watch and can afford to experience as much of this as I want for what amounts to an immaterial percentage of my income. And on top of all this I have a diary that I can write in and random people from across the globe, whom I have never met, will read it and comment on it, regardless of how poorly it is written.

I could keep going, but I think my point has been made. In short, my life is awesome. Seriously, compared to all of these wonderful things in my life, what sort of things do I have to complain of? That the Atlanta Braves should have had a better baseball season? That I can’t express how lucky I am in words?