Challenge Day 11: The best day in his life

It was a sunny morning in the beginning of May and Tom Snare got up early, which was very wise because this could be the best day in his life, and on such a day it’s good to be early up to really take advantage of it, but then he realized that the best day in his life was probably the day when he won the lottery of mankind, and happened to be born and grow up in one of the richest countries in the world with democracy and human rights and public school and heath care, rather than in a poor desert country suffering in endless drought and civil wars.

It makes a difference, it really does >:)

(I took the picture above many years ago in the West Texas desert on a dry river bed, a so-called wadi, which is cool if you're a privileged scientist who get to travel around the world to study geology, but not if you're a poor nomad and this is all you see when you go out of the tent in the morning to get some water.)