why is it that we do not appreciate wealth till we have experienced poverty?
why is it that we do not appreciate health until we have experienced sickness?
why is it that we do not appreciate our friends until we experienced lonliness?
why is it that we do not appreciate food until we have experienced hunger?
why do we not appreciate water until we have undergone thirst?
why is most human nature like this?
2007-01-03 20:09:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
actually, what im saying is not that nobody can ever be happy. in fact, thats not the question at all.
2007-01-03 22:51:26 · update #1
It is a sad fact of life.
I think the reason is because, when we are having something, we think that that thing is gonna be with us for the rest of our life!
But, at times, it does not, it may die off earlier than us.
When we are lack of something, then, we realise it is good to have that thing.
2007-01-03 20:49:30 · answer #1 · answered by Blessed Person :-) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that is true for most or some. But personally I cannot personally relate to any of that. Some people are born humble and stay that way and maybe their upbringing makes them appreciate but mainly it is a personality thing at best. Many have come from money like Barry Goldwater, go to www.history.com and you will see, or Howard Hughes? There are inventors and users, or users and abusers, or just plain users, that live for themselves and no other and use until it is all used up and then they become wanton. It is not because they had money and now that they don't they appreciate it? It is that they are broke and they want more to use some more and that is all. There are fat people that are poor and starving and they have been a glutton and all they need is more food to sustain, it is not that they learned to appreciate, because when they get more food they will devour it and continue to make the same mistakes. You call those types inertia. Like Vampires. A lust, and their goals are just to use and consume without appreciation. There are some that learn the hard way because they already were appreciative but just lost their way and then they learn their lesson for going astray, and then they get back on their road and appreciate. That is called a person with conscience. The others have hollowed out the sound of their conscience and they don't hear anything but the chanting of their wants.
2007-01-04 04:21:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the individual.I know a few rich folks who are very happy and cherish their wealth.I know people who are proud to be alive and in good health.Some people are more focused on their careers and families than friends so they dont have any.The food and water question I could analyze it but for the most part your right.
But like I said it's all on the individual.So what your saying is nobody is happy.
2007-01-04 05:11:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people are greedy. They want want want. When they get things they don't actually need they don't appreciate them even though they wanted them.
This is probably left over from caveman days because the want would drive people to get the things they would need in the future, we don't need this instinct today but we still have it.
2007-01-04 04:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because people have a doze of masochism inside them!They like to torture themselves,I am a good example of this behavior
2007-01-04 04:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by jasmine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Refusal to evolve, using the gift so unique to humans, the self-awareness !!
2007-01-04 06:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are bedazzled by the visible cure rather than the invisible prevention..... perhaps a bias towards the physical demonstration of the truth rather than its inherent integrity.
2007-01-04 04:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the best way to answer this is by using a quote. "Fools only know treasure once it is flung from their hands."
2007-01-04 04:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by his angel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you find out please let me know. I'd also like to know why hind site is 20/20 and why as we become older and less desirable are we at our smartest? Seems unfair...but as they say.."that's life"
2007-01-04 04:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by fluer_ball 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because humans take evrything for granted and do not cherish until lost. its just the way our minds take to things. hopefully we will overcome it.
2007-01-04 04:11:45 · answer #10 · answered by Tink* 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋