I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. We all walk by each other and do not acknowledge each other's existence. I encounter so many beautiful and fascinating people every day. I want to say hello. I am fortunate that I work with some wonderful people. However, my job involves engaging with the public. There is so much anger around. Many people are unhappy with their lives. I believe our anger stems from us knowing the solution but not wanting to make the sacrifice or the first move. We have a political system built on greed. The rich want more, and companies and investors expect profits to increase exponentially. However, the earth has finite resources. Many blame the wrong people for their challenging lives because they aspire to be like the rich. We idolise and worship material wealth instead of spiritual well-being. For my mental well-being, I have limited my exposure to the news. You switch on the television, and there is a proliferation of illusionary get-rich schemes. In recent years, there has been an explosion of lotteries and competitions in the UK, for example, winning a million-pound house. The system is designed to keep us hungry. People consume more than they can afford. Another development is spreading the cost of purchasing items offered by companies like PayPal, Klarana, Amazon, etc. Happiness is built on embracing our humanity, which means seeing others as human beings. We can enjoy engaging with nature, being aware of our surroundings, looking up at the sky in the daytime and at night, marvel at human ingenuity, cooking a meal, reading a book, etc. Unfortunately, many people misinterpret the saying ‘stay hungry, stay foolish’. They associated hungry with the acquisition of material goods: hunger being seen as desiring sustenance. Maybe it has to do with the person (Steve Jobs) who made this statement famous because people see hunger as acquiring material success. If one looks at the source of the original quote, it was about seeing the whole world, getting Nasa to publish a picture of the entire damn beautiful world. It is about the miracle of our existence and acknowledging this. We hunger for happiness but are afraid to do what it takes to achieve this. Also, we need to first start by defining happiness. In wanting to get rich, what is it we aspire for? What are the implications of this for the broader society? Do we acquire material wealth at the expense of others, the rich taking from the poor? What then is the impact of this: that we drive around in oversized SUVs that look like armour-plated tanks, that we live in fortresses surrounded by high walls or electric fences, that we live in high rises in the belief that they keep us safe from the outside world.