Taking It for Granted

We in the United States take alot of things for granted. what I mean is as I was over in the Philippines visiting family member just recently, I notice that the people there do things differently from us. For Instance, we take for granted of having water available for us 24 hrs a day 7 days a week nonstop. We also have the option of using either hot or cold water. Well, over there, that isn't an option. You have only cold water and the water comes on a couple of hours a day and sometime it don't even come on for about 2 days. When it does comes on, Its basically comes out as slow drips. What I notice is that they would have to leave their faucet "On" all day so whenever the water does comes "On", it will be use to fill large water buckets. Water are use to wash the dishes and laundry, manually flush the toilet and of course bathed. So we as American need to be thankful of what we have because people in other countries does not on have that and other things available to them. I also like to mention that there are some hardworkers over in the philippines, because they make use of what they have. One of the things that surprise me while I was over there is that I seen large and overstack log truck and I obviously thought that they use tractor trucks for load it, but that is not the case. They was loading the logs by hand stacking it pretty high and then several workers sits on top of it while the log truck is motion. That was pretty amazing and I have NEVER seen that here in the United States. I have great respect for them and their hard work.