The literal translation of this is to cry while presented with a plate full of food.
It actually tries to say that even if God has graced one with all possible benefits yet one cry that one's life still has imperfections.
Yes there would be imperfections but how wise it is to ruin one's precious moments behind trying to improve upon trivial issues. Ironically most of the issues are always trivial.
This thought struck me yesterday most hard when I witnessed the following two incidents.
The place I live has a petrol pump in the vicinity where I get to see all type of people with their priced possessions, their cars. As I walked around the petrol pump, I saw a happy young man topping up his swank car. He seemed from an affluent family, He was primly dressed he looked cultured and had a quiet disposition. There was immense peace and happiness on his face.
Such happiness I have failed to see on many people faces that are equally graced. The only reason I feel is the mindset one work with. Such people tend to concentrate on the trivial imperfections in their lives getting worked up and in the process driving others to the edge of insanity at times.
As that man waited a sharp object toppled off shelf nearby causing a significant dent on the car. Yet he laughed it off saying he was happy that it happened to be his car and a human being there. When one of the other customers commented that dent looks bad and he should sue the company for damages. He plainly replied it's just a car which he uses to travel from one place to another and the dent would not obstruct it from serving its purpose. He further added that he does not believe in wasting his time behind making life difficult for others just because they accidentally harmed his car, instead he would spend it on other important aspects.
This man's expensive car had a dent but that was just a trivial imperfection in his life. It was nothing more than a mistake and for that punishing the people was not really essential since it did not cause any life threatening situation. I could understand why he looked so calm and peaceful.Contrary to this, that very evening, I noticed another incident. A boy was shouting that he was fed up with his life. Out of curiosity I waited there to see what the issue was. It had happened that he did not wish to get an additional bag due to the extra charge on bag and his current bag did not have place for all his shopped items. As his sister tried to make him understand that it was just a small charge which would make life easy for all he hurled abuses and curses on his sister for not understanding the importance of things. He then brought up the topic of her having ruined a t-shirt which was a proof that she never valued anything even if it was free or a priced possession and finally the boy declared that his sister was dead for him for these reasons.
By knowledge I know that these two also hail from an extremely affluent family in my area.
Point here is the choice one makes. One chooses to ignore that imperfection so as to not stress him and others while the other disowned his sister and declared her dead.
One sort to gain respect by forgiving and other will never realize how lonely he will get by the end of his journey of perfection.
Many a times we all do run behind such trivial pursuits and we don't even realize that our pursuit leads everyone around us to great stress, mental harassment and hurt. We may or may not achieve that perfection but we do cry over it thus loosing the precious moments and people in our lives. Both the above individuals had all going in their lives but the latter will always cry that something is always less.
