How To Be Thankful For Homeless People

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If you were to listen really closely to someone’s conversation, you would most likely hear someone complaining about what they don’t have, rather than hearing someone be thankful for what they do have. That’s what most people do and they don’t even realize it. He or she will start complaining to a family member or a friend about how their life is so much better because they have better clothes or shoes or have a better phone. That person isn’t even considering what they have themselves. No matter what someone has, someone always has something better which makes certain people jealous and then complain that they need that certain item. People don’t realize that there will always be someone poorer, weaker, and less fortunate than them. There …show more content…
They think that once a new generation of phones come out that they have to have one immediately. For example, I was talking to my friend my friend last week about my phone. I was telling her how badly I wanted the new iPhone because mine was really old and had come out two years ago. We were both complaining to each other about how we had old phones and how they were really slow. At one moment during the conversation, I realized that I was being ungrateful. I at least has a phone to text, call, and play games on. I thought of all the homeless people I’ve seen before living under a bridge or on the side of the street with barely enough food to keep them alive. That’s when I realized that I complained way too much. That’s what a lot of people do. They are so ungrateful for what they actually have and they don’t even think about what they do …show more content…
People are lucky enough to even have shoes on their feet because there are some less fortunate people that have absolutely nothing. Kids these days worry about what other people will think of them if they don’t have the best, most expensive shoes with a brand name on it. This is why people complain about it. I have noticed, while walking around school, that a lot of kids, especially boys, where these expensive Adidas shoes. There could be a couple reasons for that including they like the shoe itself, all of their friends had them so they had to get them, they wanted to be cool and popular, or they complained about it so much, that their parents just gave in and bought them for their kid. Kids are so concerned about what other people think about them, that they forget to think about other people. There are so many people out in the world that don’t have shoes on their feet, so next time your friend or family member wants to complain about the nice, fancy shoes you don’t have but want, stop