Gratitude!

A man was watching his eighty-year old neighbor planting a small peach tree. He inquired of him as follows: "You don't expect to eat peaches from that tree, do you?" The old man rested on his spade. He said, "No at my age I know I won't. But all my life I've enjoyed peaches although never directly from a tree I planted myself. I'm just trying to pay back the other fellows who planted the trees for me."
Someone paved the way for us, I wonder if we are grateful to them, or do we feel like it was owed to us. Unfortunately that is the way many think and act. Hopefully not us!