In the last couple of years, especially since 2010, there has been an increase in the anxiety levels in the world. As a traveller I could see that a global anxiety fuelled by feeling of loss of nations and culture to uncertainty about the future as well as hopelessness in countries with rigid political systems
But one dictum comes to my mind :
I cannot determine what comes my way, but I can determine how I deal with it.
“I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them”
― Wilma Mankiller, Ex-Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
― Wilma Mankiller, Ex-Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
WHAT WE LACK IS THE CORRECT WAY OF LOOKING AT IT.. THEN DISTRESS HAPPENS.. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HAPPY DO NOT LIVE JUST IN THE RICHER COUNTRIES, BUT MANY PEOPLE IN POORER COUNTRIES ARE HAPPY..
WHEN GOVERNMENTS BEGIN TO INTERFERE IN PEOPLES DREAMS AND MANNERISMS AND BEHAVIOUR, YOU CAN EXPECT THE POPULATION TO BE UNHAPPY ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE INTELLIGENT AND EDUCATED (IRAN COMES TO MIND)
World is angry and stressed, Gallup
report says
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26 April 2019 the poll were asked about emotions such as feeling
stressed or happy
People around the world
are becoming more angry, stressed and worried, according to a new global survey.
Of some 150,000 people interviewed in over 140
countries, a third said they suffered stress, while at least one in five
experienced sadness or anger.
The annual Gallup Global Emotions Report asked people
about their positive and negative experiences.
The most negative country was Chad, followed
by Niger. The most positive country was Paraguay, the report said.
The US was the 39th most positive country, the
UK was 46th and India ranked 93rd.
Researchers focused on the experiences of
participants the day before the survey took place.
Interviewees were asked questions such as
"did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?" and "were you treated
with respect?" in a bid to gain an insight into people's daily
experiences.
Around 71% of people said they experienced a
considerable amount of enjoyment the day before the survey.
The poll found that levels of stress were at a
new high, while levels of worry and sadness also increased. Some 39% of those
polled said they had been worried the day before the survey, and 35% were
stressed.
Top 5 countries with highest positive
experiences
§ Paraguay
§ Panama
§ Guatemala
§ Mexico
§ El
Salvador
Top 5 countries with highest negative
experiences
§ Chad
§ Niger
§ Sierra
Leone
§ Iraq
§ Iran
Latin American countries including Paraguay,
Panama and Guatemala topped the list of positive experiences, where people
reported "feeling a lot of positive emotions each day."
The poll claims it is reflective of the
cultural tendency in Latin America to "focus on life's positives".
Chad had the highest score for negative
experiences. More than seven in 10 Chadians said they had struggled to afford
food at some point in the past year.
As many as 61% of people in the country said
they had experienced physical pain.
Despite Chad's high score for negative
experiences, people in the US and Greece were more stressed than Chadians.
Greece had the most stressed population in the
world with 59% saying they experienced stress on the day before the poll.
Around 55% of US adults said they were stressed.
It is nice to look at these results from the point of view of an Anthropologist..
look at this sentence
the worst experience in the world happened in CHAD
Despite Chad's high score for negative experiences, people in the US and Greece were more stressed than Chadians.
So LIFE EXPERIENCE has to take into consideration not just your salary or your wealth or your circumstances but as well as many of the societal norms and expectations and the weakening of the fibre in the western societies' ways of thinking by unnecessary confrontations of culture and imagined fears.
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