Hola! Happiness is a birthright, well it depends where in the world you were born doesn't it? If you are a well heeled upper middle class personage with medical insurance then a blip on the horizon is nothing, if you are a starving child in Africa I don't expect you expect much happiness.
Ditto UK, if you are a depressive single surviving in sub standard accommodation with children with asthma what's your expectation of happiness? Nil. We all look at happiness from our own perspective and project that perspective upon others.
Well, what a cheeful firstpost! JRR sounds good though.
Anna!!! Welcome! Hooray!!!!
All the same, whatever your birth circumstances and let's face it a starving child in Africa has got to be the absolute pits - it is still all we have. Very unfortunately for some.
I hate it that half the world has got all the food but it's down to the governments and they don't look after their own people even while they're personally living in relative splendour. I used to be an Amnesty International stalwart and campaign all the time in my youth, especially for Africa. Then I went and I'm afraid I was so disgusted that there seemed to be very little attempt to resolve the situation, by their own people, that I became very disillusioned. It seems that no matter how much money we throw at the Third World, the situation will never change because there is corruption on a broader scale than you would ever imagine. The tribal atrocities are well known. Think of Rwanda. How many millions do we send every year via Live Aid? Has it helped?
So you're right. No happiness there then.
