A lot of the world lives in relative comfort. On the other hand, a lot of world lives in poverty and day to day live is purely survival. My SO has seen this first hand while doing NGO relief work in some of the most destitute and hellish 3rd world countries on the planet. Her experiences and stories of these places always serves to remind me to be so appreciative of how easy we have it in comparison. Related note, she is seriously thinking of going in November, back to Africa for 8-12 months with a NGO relief group. And I as much as I would also like to go for the experience, one of us has stay and pay the bills...unfortunately.