OUR "PROBLEMS" MAY NOT BE PROBLEMS

      Some days back I stumbled on a story of a boy who killed his mother for taking away his playstation rights. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kendall-anderson-16-killed-mom-claw-hammer-playstation-court-article-1.139414  At first it sounded funny to me but on a second thought it made me realize how people see things as problems. The playstation was a problem big enough that required him to kill his mother in order to solve it. All over the world, people have different levels of problems that are different but in truth, some do not even qualify to be called problems.

      That you are able to afford a meal without having to worry about when your next meal will come means that you are better off than millions of people who cannot even afford clean water. We need to be grateful sometimes with what we have. There are many people who would give a whole lot to have at least 10% of what we have. On social networking sites, you see young people say things like, “I hate my life, I hate my parents because they did not buy me what I wanted for my birthday, my life is messed up.” This is pure ungratefulness because these people say these things for stupid reasons. You live in a house, pay no bills, you can afford three square meals a day, you have both parents still alive, and you open your mouth to say you hate your life? That is not a problem and one should not say those words. Have you ever heard of the lost boys of Sudan? No parents, no food, just themselves alone walking through the desert?

Children all over the world are dying everyday out of hunger and starvation, no roof over their heads. Sometimes we do not have the right to complain if things don’t go our way because some people out there need what we have more than we do.

      Sometimes I blame parents for always providing their children with everything they ask for. Needs are totally different from wants. Giving children everything they ask for can result in them being spoiled and not realizing it. Parents need to realize that saying no only helps mold their children into realizing that life is never a bed of roses. 

       We need to realize that people are suffering every day to make ends meet and that we should be happy that we are at least alive. Parents suffer every day to put roofs over our head and the best way to repay them is not to complain or expect more. Let us also recognize that people need some things we have more than we need them. It is good to give to the poor and needy. That is a good way to make the world a better place. Let’s reduce the way we complain and show more appreciation before it is too late.