Why do you always realize the value of something only after you lost it?

Answer 1

It isn't that we don't realize the value of something only after we have lost it.

What you describe is a feeling of selfish regret.

Say you broke up with a girlfriend who you didn't really care for that much but she was a great kisser.


It's Saturday night, you are alone and you see people on TV kissing. You think of your old girfriend but she is now dating someone else.

The pain. The pain. You now regret breaking up with her. "Why didn't I appreciate her more? "I'm such an idiot!"


When you truly value something, you know it in your heart. Regreting time spent elsewhere, or things said or done which were wrong or hurtful is normal but you never doubt the sincerity of your feelings. Your pain stems from loss, not from realizing you never valued "it" enough.

When you do not really care for something and then lose it, you are more likely to punish yourself. That is because you regret your choices in the now but not in the then.

Answer 2

Human Nature is not very grateful.They are not at all thanksgiving at all.They are greedy,a desire for more and more inside them.They do not care about what Nature has granted them.One can never value a thing when he thinks its for granted or he deserved it.But when he loses it only then he miss the thing and compare the times when he had it and when he did not.Only then he realizes the true value or the place of the thing he lost,by examining the difference in both times

Answer 3

Human nature to take things for granted and not to take the time to realize the importance of it until it's gone. We live in a rat race.

Answer 4

Because we value what we don't have. The grass is greener on the other side of the fence until u get there

Answer 5

because it was taken for granted and thought to have just been a given, but when lost you see what you had to a further exent and realize how it is without it anymore

Answer 6

When you have it, you seem to take it for granted until its gone. Then you realize its value. :-(

Answer 7

because it is always there, you get used to it that at times, you simply dont mind it. then, when it's gone, you long for it and that is how you realize its importance.

Answer 8

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til its gone.

They paved Paradise, to put up a parking lot.

Answer 9

cause people always take things for granted; they can't help it

Answer 10

The question isn't why, it's when.