012.5 Do you ever celebrate the green lights?

Dear Quibbles,

When you say that you often complain and rant with your mom about the red lights, do you not do a little victory dance when the redness of the light comes to an end? Isn't that a celebration in itself?

"Is that wrong? Is it wrong to complain about the bad parts and take the good parts for granted?"

I agree with every word you said regarding this question, but I also believe in the necessity to complain sometimes. As Hank Green once said in his video 17 Rants in 4 Minutes, we are wealthy people living in the wealthiest country at the wealthiest time in human history. Yet it still hurts when we stub our toes... etc. I think we are all human and sometimes we forget how good we’ve got it. I do believe that everyone takes things for granted, even people who have far less than we do. Maybe a girl who lives in Africa takes for granted the way her family is able to make money raising goats when another little girl just like her lives in the slums of India picking through garbage to survive. There will always be people who have less than us, and people who have less than the people who have less than us. I think it’s good to forget sometimes because it makes us all the more grateful when we pause our busy lives and realize how fortunate we really are.

Thanks for your consideration,

- Nargles 7/29/14