Daily Prompt about my biggest complaint

The other day, in the WordPress Daily Prompt section, the topic was ‘What do you complain about the most?’ This topic triggered a barrage of complaints that I have been suppressing every day. Some of them were the everyday stuff like noisy neighbours, rash drivers, traffic, etc, to weather, politics, social media taking over our lives, and more.

I felt that none of these were serious complaints, as I was not targeting a specific person; instead, they reflected my general dissatisfaction with the state of affairs. I was randomly complaining about things without a reference point for when things were better. Things have been mostly bad for the past 10 years across most of the above accounts, if you get the drift.

I tried to think a little deeper about what bothers me the most; things that have been bad frequently. I realised that most of the time, when things are often bad, we do something about it. We might not be successful all the time, but most of the time we put in enough effort to make a difference.

The actual problem is when no amount of effort can change or improve the situation. This is when I really start complaining. When no amount of effort can dent the issue, then it warrants serious complaining. These are the complaints that drive all other troubles in our lives. Don’t you think so!

There is that one problem that refuses to go away, but you are tired of thinking and talking about it. You have put in your best effort to resolve it, made the best plans to avoid it, begged around for help to tackle it, heck, even tried bribing the powers that be to help you. BUT, nothing can budge this roadblock.

So what do we do? We try to ignore it and accept it as the new reality. We try to make peace with it and mould the other aspects of our lives around this issue. We complain about all the different things in life and go silent on the main problem.

This, my friends, is my biggest complaint in life. The way we ignore the elephant in the room and bicker about the nitty-gritty. The fact that most of us refuse to see the most glaring flaw in our lives, but choose to dwell upon the minute and mundane matters that are mostly inconsequential. Please tell me if I am the only one who feels this way.