Mr. Dr. Jahan Al -Omran
A person is often preoccupied with what he lacks, and he overlooks the blessings that are in his hands, so he does not feel their value unless he loses them. He lives as if he does not have an intuitive matter, while he thinks that happiness always lies in what he has not yet obtained. It is unfortunate that some do not realize that life is full of good and blessings, and that he has many opportunities that can change the course of his life if he turns to it, but he blinds himself to them, so he remains a prisoner of grumbling and comparison, and he feels that there is something that he always lacks, while he neglects things he possesses in his hands, but others do not see them after it is too late.
Here, the pre -Islamic poet’s house, Tarfa bin Al -Abd, who expressed his longing for his lover that he cannot reach despite its proximity to him, when he described himself as saying: Like the head in Al -Bida, he kills her thirst and water on her back is carried
Camels in the desert may die thirst, even though the water is carried on its backs, because it does not realize what it carries and does not know how to benefit from it. The same is the case of that person who lives in the blessings of blessings, and does not pay attention to it, or does not know how to use it in his favor.
How many people, God blessed him with the grace of health and wellness, but he spends his time complaining about the lack of money or the poverty of the situation, not realizing that health is a capital that is not purchased. How many young people have time, energy and vitality, but he dispels them in fun and loss in trivial matters such as cafes, malls, and companions of bad comrades instead of learning a useful skill, or a new craft that helps him achieve his dreams and build his future.
There are those who live in a safe homeland, surrounded by health and educational services, and all the elements of stability, well -being and protection, then spending his days in complaint and grumbling, forgetting that others wish to sleep one night without fear of war, starvation, or displacement.
Even in the details of simple life, she sees a girl who is preoccupied with comparing herself with false pictures of artificial beauty on social media and commercial advertisements, and she overlooks her true beauty, and one of the mothers may see complaining about the hustle of her children, forgetting that their laughter, screaming, and naughty are a blessing that you will miss when they get older and leave the house, the time of time does not return back. Also look at a husband running behind young girls at the age of his daughters, for transitive whims that are indifferent to the fulfillment of his wife, who has fulfilled her life in order to support him, and wasted the spring of her youth for his happiness, so he fell into her when he came to the fall of life.
Also look at that friend who denies the virtue of his loyal friend, and standing with him during the days of distress, so he leaves him to fight superficial relationships that do not last with those with interest and personal benefit, until he loses it after he has been too late, and the same applies to that talented who is buried his capabilities under a suffocating routine that is afraid of adventure and launch, and he has the key to his success with his hands.
The problem is that a person feels inferior despite abundance, and lives hungry in the table. And if he is accustomed to seeing what is in his hands, and practicing true gratitude, to realize that happiness is not what he lacks, but rather in his ability to estimate what he possesses and invests before he loses it when regret does not benefit.
* University professor in psychology
