2006-07-12 10:33:43 · 8 answers · asked by aceventuradude 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
We take life, people and places for granted expecting that nothing will ever change. But change is inevitable and when you lose someone or something that you really loved, but took for granted, you don't realize the impact they had on your life until you don't have them anymore.
I didn't spend enough time with my father-in-law or grandmother, I will regret it forever.
I grew up in a small town and moved to a big city. When I go back home to visit now, the small town has grown up into a small city. The places and people I remember are gone.
It is a longing for people and places, the way we remembered them in our memory, before they were gone.
2006-07-12 10:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by fasn8n_67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been used a lot in music and literature.
It basically means, you never fully appreciate something until you lose it. A lot of people really understand this after they lose their parents - you always argue with your parents as a kid, and you always go through your ups and downs, but when they pass away you really realise just how much they do for you, and how important they are, even when you don't get along.
2006-07-12 11:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Pebbles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I refer to the song "....Now dont it always seem to go that you dont know what youve got till its gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Its like we take things for granted like getting up every morning and the sun will always rise or the people we love will always be there. You dont know how good we have it until it is gone.
2006-07-12 10:40:00 · answer #3 · answered by so sick of being broke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a sign of immaturity and you should grow up coz the next time you might keep the good thing before you lose it. Isn't that a Cinderella song?
2006-07-12 10:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by jozlyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During our life time we take things for granted and may even use them innapropriatley. But, when we don't have that certain thing anymore when it leaves,sometimes unexpectedley, we realize that we should have spent more time enjoying it and having fun befre we couldn't have it anymore. Like life.
2006-07-12 10:44:53 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things only seem to be significant until the individual realizes that he/she no longer has it, while before they took the item or the individual for granted.
2006-07-12 10:41:24 · answer #6 · answered by irresistable_aphrodite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do not realize the value of what we have until we no longer have it.
2006-07-12 10:39:49 · answer #7 · answered by texasgirl5454312 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we take things for granted until we lose them, then we realize how prescious they really are
2006-07-12 10:38:12 · answer #8 · answered by Jim R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋