One way to see it differently is to take a good look at the past.... go back 50, 60, 100 years and beyond.... Human rights laws, not as many... food, a risk of disease... diseases and treatment, not very good or as good...
Go back a few thousand and we've hit the optimists jackpot
Why not think things are better than ever? Right now you can sit down and type a few words into a computer, and watch a favorite episode of something, get tons of info on the subject you want, play games, reread mail, ect, ect, ect! And computers are much easier to get now than ever...
We enjoy simple medical advancements people of the past could only dream about once... Food, more tasteful, more variety, more healthier and health conscious because of advanced decontamination procedures...
Human rights laws in many places are more in force in the past that's for certain, freedom of speech (at least in more places now) exists making life and expression so much easier....
Opportuniy... there's lots of it...an immigrant comming here would almost certainly think that...
It's usually common and normal for people to think things are gloomier than they really are.. perhaps mostly habit depending on whose doing the thinking...If the person has a computer, a car, a house, nice food to eat
But on the nice side, these persons could be just sensative to other people's problems even if on the other side of the world..we need people like those....
Take care everyone...