Complaining

I love YouTube.  Would you really be able to gain an insight to another culture without international video sharing?  I mean, really......

We love to complain.  We complain about the government, we complain about our family, we complain about our neighbors.  If there is a topic, we will find a way to complain about it.  There is no effort to curb our complaining unless our parents beat it into us as a value.  Mine did and I'm grateful to them for it.  As long as you focus on the negative, you will never appreciate the good in your life.  We really need to take the time, make the effort to think of the many blessings we take for granted.  Think of how much better we have it than so many around the world.  We have free access to travel almost anywhere we desire.  We have the ability to say whatever we want.  We have the opportunities to work, succeed, marry whom we will, fellowship where we will, buy what we will. 

Compare that to the tiny little Island off the coast of Florida (Cuba) where they are just now able to buy cell phones and computers.  Even with these toy/tools they do not have the freedom to say what the want or go where they want or even live how they want.  There are heavy restrictions on approximately half the world's population because of their governments or radical elements within their cultures and they are threatened with incarceration or death for violations against their oppressive rule.  Even in free countries, as depicted in the video above, there are real reasons to complain but on the whole, we are a blessed people on the earth.  This does not even take into account the blessings God has bestowed on the earth so that we may thrive.  Plenty of water and air and food.  Plenty of materials available to work with to create goods we use and value.  Plenty of intelligence to learn how to use those materials and shape them into those usable products.

On the whole, we have much more reason to praise God than to complain to Him.  I personally glad to have been trained in how to balance my complaining with a lot of gratitude.  It has both, made me a better person, and a happier person.