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You could have been alive during the actual ice age. Or a hundred years ago when fascism was literally worse. Or an indentured slave to the British empire having your kids eaten by cannibals because you didn't make your rubber picking quota. Or in about 80% of the world today that has things worse.
The glass can be half full or half empty.
If you live your life focused on what you don't have, it devalues the things you do have. If you look at your life as one of abundance (and compared to 99.9% of human lives in all of history, it very much is), you'll have a life filled with value.
One of the few proven techniques to improve happiness is to end each day writing down three things you are grateful for that day.
All that said, yeah of course everyone is fucked and there's high odds things will only get worse from here.
Which means today is one of the best days of the rest of your life. ๐๐ชฉ๐บ
Enjoy it while it lasts?
WTF are you referring to here? I mean I'm guessing that you're referring to a historical event, rather than making shit up?
https://www.siasat.pk/threads/hand-cutting-for-rubber-cannibal-tribe-soldiers-in-quest-for-more-fortunes-for-belgian-king-190.545919/
Technically Belgian and not British though.