Things we take for granted someone is praying for

The more successful we become the more we are bored. This is why rich people never find happiness, no matter how much they try their best. They keep seeking for more but they don’t know when it’s time to stop and enjoy what they already have. If you have a bed to sleep on, eating your breakfast every morning, 3 meals a day then there is no doubt you are better enough than the 80% of the population of the world. In other words, you are rich in your own degree without knowing it and still you take everything for granted my friend.

We are ungrateful for our privileged lives. When we exploit others for our benefit, we deny their importance in our comfortable lives. Cheap foreign labour creates fake “trade” and labor situations that hurt them and us. Taking things “for granted” means expecting things, as if we're especially entitled in fact we fool ourselves into believing that we're more deserving than others.

First of all, there is a need for correction in the question, ‘paying’ needs to be changed to ‘praying’. After the correction is made, the sentence means- The things that are not valuable for us, are very precious for some people out there. Just like proper food and water, fine clothes and a neat and spacious house is not much appreciable by us.

Someone else literally craves for these basic things. The ones having both parents with them usually don't appreciate them and treasure them, but the ones who have lost them knows the precious place they hold in their lives. Similarly, there are many things that we posses and do not value them much, while someone else prays for these things.

Some people don't have basic human rights let alone food and an education. Even their days are dark, but we can moan about working a 12/hr shift when someone else would kill to have that kind of stability. That crappy apartment and McDonalds meal would be a pleasure to a homeless and starving person.

We won't ever realize our blessings until it's gone, but then it's too late. because though we think its bad it could always be worse and someone in this world is living that reality of “worse”. And ever since I've become an Atheist I realize that it could've been me. The world is random and doesn't pick favorites. I was just lucky to be born in a first world country to a lower middle class family. I always wonder if those people suffering ever wonder or search for a reason why bad fortune and pain chose them among the 7 or more billion people in this world.

However, it means that if you paid for it yourself you would know it's worth and would appreciate it. People who take money for granted tend to be living off someone else, they didn't earn that money so they don't care if they piss it away on a new iPhone or some other stupid thing. Now take a pen and paper. Note down the most important thing which mattered to you the most 10 years before or say 20 years before. Choose a time frame which is half of your present age.

Now try to go back to your past. List all the things which were very important for you. Where are they now? Let me help. If you are a student in your 20s what happened to your cycle which you liked the most at age 10? If you are aged 30, what happened to your first crush in your school, say 15 years? In your 40s now? Tell me what happened to those ambitions you carried as a young man aged 20? In your 50s now, what happened to all your life plans which you chartered at the ripe age of 25? In your 60s? Do you remember why you were so angry with your wife when you were 30 years old?

Now you are 70? Forget it. Mostly you might as well not remember what you were doing at age 35? See this was life does to you. It does this to everyone! And we in our ignorance feel so much involved with our own emotions and thoughts. Fights with relatives colleagues, anger with our loved ones, crying for self importance, competitiveness in office with sub-ordinates and superiors, manipulative with our relationships to earn that little extra advantage, craving for those gadgets, cars watches, tv and sofas, loosing ourselves and our peace for that piece of land, apartment house bungalow. Trying every skill to impress your girl. Your degrees and education. How hard did you try for all. Of course these things made things gave some high. But whether that joy that happiness was it permanent or was it just temporary? Think about it, cheers!