2006-10-09 17:21:46 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, Americans especially.
2006-10-09 17:23:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You never know what you got until you don't have it any more. I think people try to appreciate things, but life is busy and so are we and so we forget about appreciation. We may be having a hard time and not appreciate what we have. Then poof it is gone and we realize that we had more then we thought we did and wish we had it back. That is unpossible though and so we get some thing new again. Some people some times don't appreciate any thing and every thing has to be new all the time. I think some times we appreciate and some times we fail to appreciate, it is all in the frame of mind.
2006-10-09 18:09:15 · answer #2 · answered by Friend 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes, and this is why I say that. Recently, at no fault of mine I became homeless. I was a victim of crime in my own home and woke up in a hospital after being on life support. Since I have become homeless, and cannot find a home, I have found that many people have homes and don't care about them. They let their lawns grow so long you can't see the driveway, they are run down and dirty. If only I had a home. I am a clean "freak" I guess, and I appreciated what I had. I think it's this. If you work for it, you appreciate it. If it's given to you, you could careless, because everyone of the places I seen where either, parents gave them the home or they have section 8 not saying everyone on section 8 is "dirty" or no caring, or the "wealthy" kids parents are either. I am saying what I seen. In addition, I have 5 children grown and gone. My 2 daughters worked for their stuff and appreciated it, my 2 youngest sons were given more because we could afford more, let me say they have nothing we gave them, it was destroyed within 6 months. So goes to show you what you work for you appreciate. Or so I think, I would appreciate a home and believe you me I have worked for it.
2006-10-09 18:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by Rose L 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that most people don't appreciate what they have, unless they have lost some of the things that matter most to them. I lost my mother to cancer when I was 14 and my father to a major heart attack when I was 18. This put my life into perspective and made me realize that there is more to life than material things and that what we should be appreciating most out of life are the people that are in our lives becuase you never know when they may be ripped away from you.
2006-10-09 17:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by Sandra H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time. Yes
2006-10-09 18:27:53 · answer #5 · answered by ricci 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! And it's not until you loose close to everything that you realize how blessed you are. I lost a close uncle and my grandfather, and then a year later I lost my aunt and uncle back-to-back. I came down with a chronic illness, my mother had a breast cancer scare...it was insane.
Yet all of it has taught me to look at others. There's always someone who has it worse off than me. I see girls (and guys I suppose) running around wondering how they look, and what they should wear....and they miss the point. At least they have arms and legs that they can slide jeans and t-shirts on....they have parents to help them pay for clothes...they have clothes in the first place.
Sorry...didn't mean to talk so much. That just upsets me.
2006-10-09 17:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by lilsedalemami 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they don't appreciate what they have because they are not integral within or to say not at ease within. Thus it paves way for hunger -- this hunger can take many shapes -- hunger for more and more food, hunger for money, hunger for sex, etc. They try to fill within from without, which becomes an unending story of their life.
The way out is to be at ease within so that these chains that bind the individual is broken.
2006-10-09 17:28:55 · answer #7 · answered by Virgo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
most people in America don't appreciate what they have because it is a society that is based upon material items. most people just want what they don't/can't have and don't care about what they do have.
i can't say anything about all the other countries in the world since i don't live there & i don't study their appreciation of goods.
2006-10-09 17:28:30 · answer #8 · answered by christy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes most frequently. i think it's human nature to want more, to want what you don't have. I'm a nurse and i find it very humbling to learn to appreciate the simple things in life that we often take for granted like swallowing & being bale to taste our food, or being able to pee or poo normally, walking, smelling, being normal. we often take being normal for granted till it's taken away from us. I always pray every morning when i wake up to be able to appreciate what i have and not yearn for what i don't have. There's this saying that God will give us what we need and not what we want, cos ususally what we want may not necessarily be what we need.
2006-10-09 17:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by AnT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Americans don't know what true hardship is, so they have no point of reference and as a result they think things are bad when they are really good. So the answer is YES.
2006-10-09 17:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by Beast 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋