The Farmer and his Vineyard

There is a metaphor used in Perek ה that expresses what Hashem was trying to accomplish and what really happened. The beginning of the Perek tells a story about a farmer who does everything right to his plot of land. He waters it regularly, it gets light constantly throughout the day, and the farmer comes to check on them every once in a while. This is an extremely attentive farmer. But the crops didn't grow as the farmer planned. They came out of the earth in the form of wild berries instead of nice, beautiful grapes. The farmer wasn't elated about this growing mistake. From this story we take the farmer and compare him to Hashem, and we take the vineyard and compare it to the Jewish nation. Hashem does everything to care for us. But instead we rejected him and turned out a different way. He wanted us to become a person with justice and righteousness, but instead we became injustice and complained a lot. 

This idea still applies today, and I think we should remember this metaphor throughout our lives. Hashem does so much to help us and take care of us, but we, as humans, always take the bad things to look at and talk about. Instead of thinking about the good things that happen to us and praise Hashem, we take the bad things and complain to Hashem about them. If someone has a life where everything is good, but one day this person got a bad grade on his test. He wont think about all the good he has, rather he will take this bad example as a reason to complain. 

I think that the reason why we look at the bad things is because our sadness has so much more impact on our emotions than happiness does. I think we need to take this into consideration. We need to remember to always have a healthy balance of both. It is human nature to complain, but we also need to put some time aside to focus on the good things and to thank Hashem.