Have you noticed how people are always complaining? They complain about everything, you try to address their grievances, but they still find something else to complain again and again. It is like they are ungrateful to all your efforts at trying to please them.
The story is told of a regular customer at the restaurant who was always complaining. The management tried to please him. When he complained that only one piece of bread was served with his meal, the waiter brought him three slices the next night.
“That’s better,” said the man, “but not enough. I like bread.”
The next evening, the waiter brought a dozen pieces. “Better yet,” said the man, “but why skimp? I like bread.”
A basketful of slices the next night failed to stop the complaint. “We’ll fix him,” the manager told the waiter, and ordered a gigantic loaf specially baked-six feet long and as big as a barrel.
When the man came in for his meal, the waiter lugged in the entire loaf, uncut, dropped it on the table, and waited hopefully for comment. The man glared at the loaf, and said in resigned tones, “Back to one piece again, I see.”
Do you know anyone like this? You’re not like this yourself, are you? If you are, then perhaps if you complain less often you will start to realize and appreciate what others have done for you. Maybe you will start to appreciate their love for you, and what sacrifices they have done for you all this while. And perhaps you will realize that because you are always complaining, you do not have the joy that others have. So stop complaining.
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