Opinion Editorial Piece

Do people complain too much?

          Every day I hear whines or cries about the simplest things from any one to everyone. Don’t get me wrong, I am one of those people sometimes. However I think its pointless to complain about things like your parents irritating you, or this 6-7 class schedule, or having practice every day and becoming sore, or having nothing to eat when really you just don’t see anything you like. I do complain about some of these things once and awhile but I realize that I have it easy compared to a plentiful amount of kids my age.

          One example I used is being irritated, mad, or fighting with a parent. I fight or get irritated with mine all the time, no doubt about it but in the end I never stay mad at them. I never can because I imagine what my would be like if I didn’t have them. I just have the thought of what orphans or foster kids go through. When I think of that I just stop my complaining and am happy I have mine around all the time.

         Another thing a lot of us complain about is practice or being tired and sore to the point we wish we couldn’t feel our legs. I think we are wrong, we shouldn’t complain we are sore, we should be thankful we have a functioning body. When I am struggling sometime with something hurting or im just sore. I don’t complain I just think of those who lost an arm or leg in the military or someone with a disorder and how they feel without being able to normally walk or run like I do.

          The last one I think we complain about way too much every day is not having anything to eat while we stare at a full fridge or something. When we say we are starving, there is other people on the other side of the world on the brink of death. There are kids suffering and struggling to survive. They’ll do anything for any type of food or water and we complain we can’t find anything to eat because we don’t see anything we really want.    

         Sometimes I think we over dramatize what is really going on and focus on the bad rather than the good. We can complain about anything bad but hardly ever notice what greater goods are going on around us. Complaining never gets you anywhere to be honest. It doesn’t help anything at all you’re basically wasting your breath for nothing, or at least that’s my point of view. For the people that complain about life when they reach any small obstacle, well reality check it could be so much worse. A majority of my generation doesn’t realize they aren't the only one struggling.