"It could be worse"

One of the most damaging of false assumptions is that it is wrong to complain about anything if our situation could be worse. From an eternal perspective, this is , of course, very true. Given that we are hell-deserving sinners, then anything we receive in this life is better than we deserve.


However, in the normal context of our lives, to use this thought process is to be pressing constantly downward upon the tenor of our lives. Any acknowledgement that things could and should be better than they are is to “complain” after a fashion. If we register a complaint, then we are pressing to improve, or for someone else to improve.

I have been disgusted when I hear company management, when the compensation package of employees is cut in some fashion, make the retort, “Well, there are a lot of folks out there that do not have a job, so just be glad for what you have.” So we are not to notice any deficiencies in the company as long as we have any kind of a job? Is that what they are saying? We are to assume that management is always doing the best it can do? The truth is that in those cases management got caught short, but they do not want anyone pointing it out.