Most of them were among the world’s leading centres of
violent and volatile socio-political conditions, and yet the primary reason for
unhappiness in every single one of them was given as either unemployment,
inflation or high interest rates.
And so I wonder just who devised this poll and how they weighted the questions. Could it have been, perhaps, a bunch of academics living a relatively peaceful and
prosperous life in the US or
Western Europe? Is that why they failed to
notice that being ruled, used and abused by vicious gangs, or running the daily
risk of being dismembered by a routine bomb in the marketplace, is a greater
reason to be unhappy than paying more interest on their overdrafts?
* * *
Maybe later I’ll tell the story of the injured and
apparently rejected little lamb which I bottle fed today. Seeing animals,
especially baby ones, in distress gets to me, you know? It does. It really does. And it takes me a while to
get over it. Besides, I’m fed up with this blog being bloody miserable.
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