On Attitudes

Everyday, I hear complaints and groans about how "life sucks" and how "school sucks" etc. But seriously, what right do we have to complain? Living in the Bay Area, going to one the best schools in the US. We don't have to worry about our next meal, we don't have to worry about where we'll sleep next. What right do we, as humans, have to say "life sucks"? I for one am sick of hearing people with negative attitudes like those. That is not to say that I don't have attitudes like that sometimes. When we compare the life of the same child living in a slum in India, or dying of AIDS in an impoverished country in Africa, what right do we have to say that life sucks? We are luckier that anyone on this entire planet. We have the right to say what we want, to pursue happiness. Instead of always looking at things with pessimism and detestation, why can't people be thankful of what they have and be glad that they aren't in a worse condition. That child soldier dying in the middle of a pointless rebel war did not do anything wrong. He tried to live a happy life, he probably tried harder than we did. Even with our luck, our riches, our good fortune, we can't just be happy and have the satisfaction that life is good and that we are so much better off than almost the entire world. Attitudes need to be changed. Pessimism needs to go. Life is pretty much as close to perfect as it can possibly be, and yet, all we do is complain.