Not everyone has running water — how could I have forgotten?

When I lived with my mother and brothers we did not have water in the house. Early in the morning I would walk with my older brother to the well. I was not strong enough to use the water pump, but I could carry buckets of water up the hill. When we reached the house we put the buckets of water on a table in the kitchen.

It was how it was.

When Indra Raj Pathak reminded me, in a comment, that not everyone has hot water, it hit me that not everyone has running water.

I’d forgotten how fortunate I was.

With all the wealth in the world — some people do not have simple basics; like running water.

What can we do about that?

We can know.

We can know we are blessed.