James, I don’t know if it helps to consider how someone else has it worse than you do.
But if so... then read post 44 and count your blessing that at least you’re not Soothesayer.
And Soothesayer... you can count yourself lucky to be in America. I’m almost inclined to chew you out for taking such an attitude - living as you do in the most prosperous nation ever in the history of mankind. I suggest you go google the stats on how Americans live as opposed to the rest of the world.
The unlimited death and misery in the world should not make you happy to be relatively better off. It should make you angry that others are experiencing it. The “glass half full” view is definitely a more pleasant way to live but there seems to be something very wrong about it.
Maybe this is what sanity looks like but it seems insane to me. Sorry but that’s what it looks like.