Yep. Count your blessings.
Good health. Safe country. An organised society (by and large). Clean running water. Food that is cheap and available. A society that is on the whole caring and concerned. Children that get educated. Health care that is available to all. Police and emergency services that respond when needed.
Things we pretty much take for granted.
No matter how much we feel they can be improved on we are a million times better off than probably 70% of the worlds population.
Hear hear!
I got into a conversation with someone today who was a little be confrontational about his recycling, and a detail of what plastics we take. He ended up saying "We've got a lot to learn, look at India, they recycle everything". As we walked away, my colleague said to me "Yes, but then, they have people living on their rubbish tips in order to do so...." We suspect he would not be keen to take on that role...
I think a lot of anger is down to discontentment and frustration. Not having the latest thing, or the latest fashion or the right car or whatever. And not because those things really make life better, but because people have been led to think that they do.
I'm not well off, I don't have many modern 'toys'. But I've come not to be bothered about that. I have the things that really matter, and as long as I can eat, and sleep under a roof, and get electricity out of the wall and spend time with the people I love, I'm happy. And while I can rant with the best of them about a mixed up recycling box, or a bad driver, or any one of life's little annoyances, it's all very superficial, and a second or two later, I'm laughing again. I like to think I'm not an angry person.
