This may sound cliche but people really don't know how precious things are until it is taken away from them. Now I say this is applicable to almost every human being, even myself. We only regret after it's gone.
Besides that, people are also not grateful of the things around them. We always expect more. Everyone wants the best and even with the best, we're still not satisfied. You might be upset if you didn't get the latest smart phone in the market for your birthday but some kid around the world is happy if he even got a cheap second hand phone for his birthday. A phone's function is to be able to call anyway.
So what if you got that smart phone and you're, for once, happy with it? The satisfaction is not going to last long. Even some rich kids change phones like they change clothes. This makes me ask myself, "Are all rich kids the ungrateful ones?"
In my opinion, not really. Even if you're not rich, there has to be some things you're just not satisfied with. You're poor and you're always complaining that no matter how hard to work, you're never gonna strike it rich. Let's be honest, everyone wants to live the high life. Be grateful you even have a house to live in. Think of all the homeless people in less developed countries or those that live in wooden houses they had to build themselves.
And I'm not saying that you should be happy that there's someone out there having it way worse than you. I'm trying to say that while you're complaining about all the retarded things like not having the coolest phone/clothes and whatever you teenagers go crazy about, there is someone who wished that he had 1/3 of what you have. Even with that 1/3, he'd be contented.
So I guess, maybe it's the developed countries that always take things for granted. I mean we do lead a more fortunate life than those in less developed countries. Well I'm just being generic. Maybe not all of you are like that whiny kid that complains about phones/clothes/food... But I refuse to believe that you have never been ungrateful before. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has something that they take for granted every day.
I know of one. It's a mixture of gases called air. When will you stop breathing in this odourless gas? You'll never know... (okay that was a weird way to say that people take for granted every second of their lives. Oh well).
Oh look at the time, I've obviously talked too much. -.- What a nice post to start April, the month of Chihuahuas (according to my dog calendar). Happy April Fool's Day! Don't you dare get any funny ideas of pranking me. I'll drown your pet fish. :)
So I shall end this post with a quote for you to think about:
"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." -Leo Tolstoy
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