{"text":"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","appreciate","appreciation","brutality","exist","forfeit","hope","life","lose","opportunities","opportunity","privilege","savagery","thankful","thankfulness","thanks","thanksgiving"],"id":127042,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}