You never know what you've got until it's gone !

Sadly, yes I do, which is why I think it's so important that we get into the habit of being thankful, every day, for the things that make our lives worthwhile, especially family. We take our loved ones for granted when everything is going along well. Every day spent with them is a precious gift. Remember that song by David Gates/Bread, "Everything I own"? He dedicated that to his dad. He would have given everything, but everything he owned to talk to his dad...I mean, just once, just once again.

' Be thankful for the little mercies'. I think its very true, though materialistic things as those i feel even if you dont have or lose, you can always recover them or buy a replacement, but more importantly the personal losses , of those close to us are the worse. I lost my mom a few years back and i realise how badly i miss her. Of course her memories are with me, and i feel her so often guidng me in my things and always beside me, but its not the same, i miss her presence in human form. And i wish so many things that i should have told her, how much i loved her, thank her for doing so much for me, as to how proud i was of her acheivements etc. But all this comes to me now after i have lost her. So, i request each one of you , those who have their parents and near and dear ones, value their presence, they are not going to be with you forever, what is there today would not be there tomorrow, hug them, love them, tell them you care etc, as tomorrow after they go, it will be too late. Dont take them for granted, and think that they are always there, as tomorrow they may not be there.Value each moment you spend with them, thinking its the last time you are meeting them. Dont spend life fighting or arguing more so with your near and ear ones, as i feel half the time so many problems keep us away from being close to our dear ones.

I remember the time I used to be very extravagant when my previous business was doing very well.After some time the business has shrunk and I felt that I should have saved more and began to know the preciousness of that business.

Thats true and we should really try and be appreciate of what we have now, even though sometimes its hard to see WHAT we have until its gone. I grew up in a house that my parents began to hate. It was a nice house, but they werent keeping it up and began to hate it. Well, a tornado came and took it away and we ended up living in a motel and then a rental house and then they bought a house. The house they have now is nice, but now guess what? They miss the old house and the things that it had that this one doesnt. They didnt appreciate that house until it was gone.

I think that many people take for granted the beauty around the area in which they live. I remember during my teacher training stying in a coastal resort. The children lived near a beautiful beach but did not appreciate it at all. Yet people from inland towns visit that area for holidays. When I moved into my current home I adored the view of the country that the upstairs back window provides. I spent lots of time admiring it. Now I don't spend nearly as much time doing this.

i believe that if you lost something and you only knew the importance of that from very moment that it's already gone, i believe that God did it in a good purpose for us to learn about how to value and appreciate what we have,. it's a wake up call to start giving attention on be thankful for all the blessings that we always received..

Actually I used to believe in that saying. But I realized that its not true that you dont know what you've got. The real deal is you know what you've got, you just dont know that you would lose it. The lesson is the same that we have to appreciate and value everything we have. But we have to accept the fact that we do know what we have we just fail to value them and once we realize how much it is worth, its too late already.

Well, I'm not sure about that. Sometimes we neglect the people around us, what they do for us and the love that they are giving like our parents, we find it hard to say thank you to them and I love you.

yes,I can not agree more with you.as we all know,all of us tend to cherish those gone things or persones in our life,maybe it is our human's nature.but I still want to say,to some extent,we should know well what we have got in daily life and cherish it very much.