It’s A Waste of Time
Some people think that if they complain, they’ll convince even the Ribbono Shel Olam to help them. If I forget about my troubles for even a minute, who’s going to know that this person wronged me? Who will help me feel that I am right? I must speak about it and shout it from the rooftops. I must sit and reiterate my pain, and this way, everyone in the family will know that it’s wrong to make a Chanukah party when one of the siblings can’t make it!
There could be some logic to the complaint but it’s still not usually worthwhile to voice it. We always have the choice to either sit and wallow or to emerge from the hole and do our best to distract ourselves from the pain and discomfort.
On today’s technological devices, people have the ability to check how much time they wasted on their devices—and similarly, we can all make a cheshbon of how much time we wasted on talking about our problems.
