Ken, we live in a society that is a throwaway society, where corporations make a fortune off of reminding us what we don't have and can't yet afford. Just to increase their profits, what they make for us is designed to break down soon and force us to replace it sooner, than our grandparents had to do. I am old enough to remember appliance that last for decades, even generations. Not to mention small shops with people who could repair them as needed.

That is bad enough, but we are trained to worry about what we don't have yet, or have not experienced yet, that we miss appreciating what we are fortunate enough to have right now, and those good experiences that we have had, maybe even having right now.

So what we do not appreciate while we have it, will only be noticed when they are gone. Now that is truly sad.