I agree Wolfgang...and I would posit further that when one says "abundance" one might ask..."of what?" There are many poor nations where the happiness quotient is higher than the U.S.
I think part of the secret is being happy with what one has already. When my kids occasionally showed that they were unappreciative of what they had been given, I was a lot less likely to give them more. So it may be for us. Not a case of "deserving" or not...more like, "if you ain't going to use what you have, what's the sense in giving you more of it?"
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