איזה הוא עשיר? השמח בחלקו

Quote from Ruben Navarrette's review of "The Blind Side":

"So much in life you take for granted. We've forgotten how lucky we are, because we're busy cursing fate. We've stopped being grateful for what we have, because we somehow find it more satisfying to complain about what we don't. Until we meet someone who has much less than we do.

As Americans, we've become victims of our own success. We've strayed so far from the example of our immigrant parents and grandparents that we bear no resemblance to that model.

Weighed down by own bloated sense of entitlement and self-importance, we've lost our appetite for competition and we prefer to talk instead about what we think we "deserve." At the first sign of adversity, we play the victim, give up, or fall apart.

With all the blessings that come with living in the world's most remarkable country, still we complain. We retreat. We whine."

Or, as Ben Zoma said in the Talmud (Avos 4:1), "Who is rich? The one who is appreciates what he has."