In this week’s Takimag, the grateful doctor reminds himself—and his readers—of the need to occasionally look around and be thankful for the life that he has been given.

It is difficult—impossible would probably be a more accurate way of putting it—to be always counting one’s blessings, however great they might be. Nevertheless, it is important to try to do so at least intermittently, or else one would lose sight of them altogether and give in to self-pity, one of the few emotions that can, and often does, last a lifetime.