Value it before you lose it.

I’ll never forget that hot summer day at my grandmother’s house when we had discords and couldn’t stop arguing all day long about my studies. It was the week before summer vacation, I refused to revise or even study a word because like any other fifth grader all I wanted to do is play around and watch T.V. My grandmother whom was the most intelligent person I have ever met used to help in my studies, she was a genius and she was the reason I got high grades since the day I became a student. Sitting in the balcony back then with hot sizzling sun tanning my face I couldn’t concentrate on anything and my grandmother insisted on revising once again the conjugation of the irregular verbs. Suddenly I stopped her and told her I can’t take it anymore and started crying, here we go again another prodigious fight for nothing and it was at that moment when she told me a proverb that I hated since the day I heard it “You Don't Know What You've Got, Until You Lose It”. Honestly I nullified the true meaning of what she said and didn’t even know what she talking about. This eccentric sentence didn’t cross my mind until next year when I was all alone sitting in my room trying to study for the first time all by myself. I was appalled when I remembered what she told me year ago, that proverb was now running in my mind and impossible to get out because it was true and it will always be true no one can ever know the value of what they have until its gone or they can’t have.   

It runs in human blood and passed out through generation, moaning about what we haven’t got is like a daily routine. We are all guilty of just accepting things and not truly appreciating them, because we assume that they will always be there. The thing is that there are always things in our lives that we usually just take for granted. It’s because they have always been there, we just accept their presence, but do not really place any value on them. But what we neglect is that in a blink of eye everything can change and all these big things that we think are forever ours can disappear in seconds.  

Every day, every single one of us finds something that opens his eyes to realize what they’ve been waiting for or wanting has been here the whole time. It can be presented through innumerable stuff starting with kids who sleep in streets, suffering families, solders who risk their lives and leave their beloved one behind, orphans, famine and more. The point is that we will never stop our ongoing process of demanding and wanting everything or what others have. But what we should all do once a while is stop and reflect about the simples thing we have others don’t. Like for example HEALTH, ever thought that there are people who are born and raised up with diseases? So remember, you don't know what you've got, until you lose it.