"You Don't Know What You've Got"

"You don't know what you've got" ringing through my ears as I walk down my street on the way to uni.
"Do you have a house, a nice car, a family, friends?" A man shouting on the street at people as they walk by. Angry, bitter about the losses he has suffered.
"I lost my wife, my family, my friends, my job, I lost everything! You don't know what you've got," he shouts as I walk on by, focusing on some object in the distance to avoid contact with his eyes.
"What are you staring at?" he screams at someone on the other side of the road. "You think you're better? you have a nice car? Somewhere to sleep at night?"
The voice fades away as I turn at the bottom of the street and head the other way.

I don't know why this man has lost everything. But he does have a point. Do we really know what we've got? Because if we don't, and we just take it for granted, then we may end up doing foolish things and ending up like this man. Bitter, angry, hating, perhaps in deep regret.

Although I think this man's anger was directed at the wrong people, maybe he should have asked himself why he lost it all. We still need to remember that our own lives and everything in them are held up by just a thin string that can so easily snap, and cause everything to hit the ground and splatter everywhere.

Let's be thankful and appreciative of those people who put up with us before there's a mess all over the ground too big to clean up.