An old man said to me once : " The problem of the mankind is that he doesn't know that he's lucky or not "?

Question

He explaind : " The mankind doesn't know that's he's lucky untill he gets old " . Is that true ?

The answer of miki is very intrestin : it's before working in a hospital & after .

amp , nice words !
" The key to life is to make the most of it at any age "

amp

Answer 1

only a few people realize how lucky they are. before i worked in a hospital i didn't realize how lucky i am that i don't have a serious illness or drug addiction.

some people just don't know what they have until its gone. pardon the cliche, but its so true.

Answer 2

Yes. There is that old expression "Youth is wasted on the young." When you're young you don't have the wisdom to appreciate how lucky you are. The world is your oyster, so many possibilities are open to you. Many people don't recognize this & don't make the most of their lives. Then when they are older they see how much more they might have done to take advantage of their youthful strength, energy & opportunities. Hence the saying "hindsight is 20-20." You don't want to look back one day & think "I wish" or "If only I'd..." Whatever your dreams are, go for it! Seize the day! Many kids take their youth for granted & don't see how lucky they are not to have so many adult responsibilities yet. They could travel, do things that become more difficult later on with bills to pay & family obligations...

The key to life is to make the most of it at any age. If you stay young at heart then it's never too late to go after your dreams in some capacity, no matter how old you are. Even when I'm 80 yrs old I can paint & write songs & sing. Never lose your childlike sense of wonder.

& if you're quite young & reading this, then go have fun! Appreciate all that life has to offer! You will look back at your youth as an exciting happy time, some of your best years. Make the most of it! Make happy memories to last a lifetime.

We are all lucky to be alive. We must appreciate the beautiful things in life at any age. It's never too soon or too late to pay attention to the little things. Be grateful & live life to its fullest!

Answer 3

For me, it is not true because I do not believe in luck if by luck you mean some mysterious cosmic force that brings good fortune to some and prevents good fortune from going to others.

I do, however, believe that life is mostly a series of random occurrences that may or may not go in your favor. We have much less control than we think although hard work, education and strong friends and family generally increase your odds of success. They do NOT guarantee your success. However, hard work is its own reward even if it does achieve the desired results.

I am 43 years old and live a comfortable life surrounded by people who truly care about me. I know love in many forms and have seen a decent amount of the world. I have experienced many wondrous from a long slow kiss to whitewater rafting to incredible bands that played with every ounce of heart and soul they have.

I have a good brain and a strong body. I recognized my good fortune decades ago and try to spread some good fortune as a way of saying thank you.

Finally, I do agree that many people fail to notice their good fortunes, great and small. This requires self-enlightenment and introspection which are in short supply in these fast-paced and often crazy United States.

So people, rejoice in the little things and share your joy with as many as folks as possible.

Answer 4

It would only be true if you don't appreciate you "blessings" when they come to you. Most people cant be thank full until they are older and have slowed down enough to see what life is really about that and old people have a lot of time on there hands

Answer 5

The question is highly philosophical. The old man has a great point to pass across to all humanity. He is actually saying that ONE DOES NOT VALUE WHAT HE HAS UNTIL HE LOSES IT. Or put in another way, people do not seem to know the value of what they have until they lose that thing.

THE WOMAN
Let me tackle it from both gender points: A young lady may feel that she has all the time there is in the world to get married by and by. She may play the prangs jilting young men here and there and figuratively BREAKING THEIR HEARTS and making all the guys she knows. Money may be her utmost pursuit. A man might be very serious about marriage and has actually approached her for it, but because she wouldn't like to be tied down in one man's house, she would turn down the opportunity to get married. Her friend could deceive her that there are many men in the world and that she would one day get married to the best of men.

Suddenly! her next birthday just reminded her that she will be 38 or 41 in a month or so . Then, the veil falls off her eyes. She wants to get settle. No man is coming. She runs back to the one that was formerly interested, but alas! He is now married with three or four children. She discovers that her internal, physical and reproductive systems are beginning to disintegrate. Wrinkles appear everywhere on her face. Her smiles become chimpanzz-like. Her breasts which were full and lively in her youth have now become flattened like slippers--tehy have become pancakes! Aging veins begin to appear all over her. Her reasoning fails her. Children begin to tell her "Mama, dont you know that you are old?" Strangers who have never known her address her at the market square and at the party as "Madam..." As she runs back home, her friend's children came to greet her,"welcome mummy" yet no man is interested in her anymore. She is old. Men dont "rush" her anymore. Now she has to face reality. Yes! Stag reality that she is old. Then, she exclaims, "How unlucky I am that no one has married me." She becomes troubled and decides to become SUGAR MUMMY abusing children and teaching everything amoral. "Mankind does not know how lucky he is until he is old," becomes her national anthem...

THE MAN
There are some young men who call themselves TESTERS. What do they mean here? They mean that they are in the business of having premarital sex with ladies of all ages. They are sex-testers!There are a few here in Nigeria who save the nude pictures of all the girls they have ever had sex with on their desk tops. They waste their youthful sperms during coitus with women who are not their wives. They rape even at gun point. They persuade some as though they are getting into a marriage relationship.But, as soon as the innocent unsuspected girl yields to their crafty persuassion of premarital sex, they ejaculate either into a condom or into the urethra and flee. When the girl reminds them of their marriage plans and agreement, they become aggressive. If the girl was pregnant for them, they either ask her to abort or they deny ever having anything to do with the lady---they wont submit to any test either. Some help the girls to throw the fine children into a lagoon, a lake, a gutter, a pit latrin or even to a nearby bush.

If they didnt catch AIDS or any of the veneral diseases,after some years, they become rich and decide to get married to an innocent lady . Both of them have aggreed to have two children--a boy and a girl. Ten years after marriage, no child. They have tried evrything possible to have children, but none. The doctor finally found out that the lady lost her womb when she did the last abortion 20yrs ago. The man is diagnosed to have low sperm count and less strength for anymore sexual activity. He is warned to refrain from sex if he wanted to live. Both of them had vowed that they would never adopt any child. They wanted children of their own.

Now it dawns on them that they were lucky to have had children when they were still bubbling with life. Now, they are old---the man is 72 and the woman is 64. Then the words of the old man which you quoted above come to bear that,"The Problem with Mankind is that he doesn't know that he's lucky until he gets old."

Opportunity, they say, comes but ones. Do not triffle with opportunities in life. Another or a better one may never come. Grab the present opportunity first and utilise it while you wait for another...

Keep Soaring with the Eagles and Nest in the Highest of Mountains!
Rev. Elisha A. Eddie

Answer 6

I'll add to that: It's better to be lucky than good. Have a nice life!

Answer 7

That old man is right about the problem, but not necessarily about the age.

Answer 8

i think the point he was trying to make is that we all take our youth for granted and never truly think we will get old, time goes so fast and before we know it, we,r old, and then we remember what is was like to be young, i dont wanna get old, i find it scary, xxx

Answer 9

"I took notice of my happiness from the noise she made as she was walking away, leaving me".

This is what came into my mind when I read your question. Maybe it gives you an answer.

Answer 10

No. I knew way before that I was lucky.