"You don't know what you've got til its gone" (Joni Mitchell) Illustration

The statement "You don't know what you've got til its gone" (Joni Mitchell) is very true. For instance, once time I was playing my Wii at my house, not thinking at all that compared to the rest of the world, what I was doing right then was a rarity. I didn't realize this until all-of-a-sudden, our electricity went out. I found myself thinking about what I was going to do now that I lost electricity and I got frustrated because I was getting bored out of a lack of things to do. It was then that I realized how dependent I am on having my Wii, even more so on electricity, and at that moment I found out that I should be more appreciative of what I have, because most of the world doesn't have most of the things I do. I hope this makes other people realize that we should be more appreciative of what we have, and to think about that all the time, not just when we don't currently have those things.