The temperature outside the house hovers around freezing while inside I wear only boxers and a tee-shirt. *So what* if I get a little chilly!!??? I'll just turn up the thermostat or get one of several blankets.
When I'm thirsty, I can go to my kitchen sink and get a glass of clear, drinkable water straight from the tap... a luxury in many places in this world. If it's not cold enough, I can go to the fridge and get some of the ice cubes that are sitting there, waiting on me.
Oh! The fridge!! My refrigerator (and freezer) usually has too much food in it. It's not that uncommon for me to throw food away that has gone bad since I didn't get around to eating it in time.
After a long day's work, I like taking a shower. Depending on how I feel, I can adjust the temperature of the water until it is just perfect against my skin -- soothingly warm or refreshingly cool.
Since the times between meals isn't hardly that long, it's rare for me to actually feel hunger pangs. I usually eat only cause it's time to eat. Hungry or not, at mealtime the problem is usually not IF I'll eat but WHAT I'll eat. "What do you have a taste for?" is a question I hear my wife ask more than once every week. Burgers? Tex/Mex? Pizza? Chinese? Bar-b-que?
At the grocery store these days, aisles upon aisles are lined with not just bread, but thirty varieties of bread. Not just sodas, but sodas to suit every taste. Breakfast cereal, canned vegetables of every description, chips and crackers, breakfast meats, fresh fruits and fresh vegetables from hundreds of miles away.
Because of my pc and the Internet, I have access to people, sights, sounds and information from places I've never seen more knowledge and greater freedom than I could ever use in several lifetimes. I can make true friends with people on the other side of the planet and share ideas that make me a better person.
If I want, I can travel by car, boat or plane to practically any place on earth and when I get there ... take pictures or video of my stay to remind me of my visit. I can eat what the locals eat -- foods that I likely would never have even seen-- and live like the locals live. I'm able to meet the actual person who wrote the words I read on my pc days or weeks or years earlier -- in short, I can experience a whole 'nuther life. Afterwards, I can return safely home.
No doubt about it...
... compared to how most people have lived and many live today, I am a king. And I'm thankful.