Always Complainin'

We humans are very ungrateful creatures. It's true what Allah says in the Quran: "Kaanal Insaanu Kafoora" (Indeed, man is ungrateful). I know I am.
It's like we always have to complain about something or the other. Either lack of sleep (this I'm doing all the time), lack of heat (when it gets too cold), lack of AC (when it gets too hot), lack of food, lack of fun ("oh no, another boring day at home..great!"), lack of energy, yada yada. You get the point. Instead of complaining, we should use our time wisely.
We can never just be thankful for anything. Yes, we listen to lectures and all and our spiritual side all of a sudden "awakens" and "sees the light" but then.. the light goes dim. Maybe the batteries ran out? Who knows.
We are never satisfied with what we have. We always want more of it. If not more, then we want less. We never take out the time to thank our Lord that he even let us see another day. He gave us another day to fix ourselves, to "wake up and see the light". But we don't realize that. We live everyday as if we're going to wake up the next morning just fine. What if we don't? What if tonight is the last night? There are so many "What If's?". We know this too and yet, we don't do anything about it. It's like we're momentarily blinded.
To be thankful to our Lord, the only thing he asks of us is to atleast perfom two rakats of Salat Shukr (Prayer of Thanks). It comes in a hadith that "Man has 365 joints that Allah has given him and to show his thankfulness, two rakats of Salah is enough for all of that" (something along the lines of this).
So would it really hurt us to actually take time out of our "busy" schedules and perform two rakats of Salah? I don't think so.
I hope that I can atleast start doing that. If we don't start off sincere, and we just do it for the sake of doing it, it's better than not doing it at all.
But first of all, performing our 5 times Salah is most important.
We take it very lightly. But on the Day of Judgment; the day when we'll be drowning in our own sweat according to our bad deeds, the day when the sun is going to be above our heads, the day when there'll be no shade except Allah's shade; On that day, the first question that will be asked will be of Salah. Will we be ready? I know I'm not. It's a scary thought.
I pray to Allah that he gives us the ability to remain steadfast on our Deen and that he shades us in his shade on the day when there will be no shade except his.
I'm no scholar or preacher and whatever I say goes to me first.