Best? Or Stressed?

It is said that the 2010s was the best decade in world history. Look at the list from a fellow writer …

Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time (it was 35 percent in 1987).
Child mortality has fallen to record low levels.
Famine has virtually gone extinct.
Malaria, polio, and heart disease are all in decline.
Half of the world is now middle class or wealthier.
Mortality rates for women and infants have been halved since 1990.
Primary education has become near-universal in nearly all of the world.
Christians in Iran are the ‘fastest-growing church’ in the world (in spite of terrible conditions and persecution.

Pretty good. But yet it seems we are also very stressed, even in America. I realize we can spew a list of bad stuff too … opiate crisis, threat of war, highest abortion rate, randomn acts of violence, political and racial division, I drive a car that’s over 20 years old, I am still paying on my son’s college loan … I think I have spun into personal woes, so I will stop.

The issue … where do you look? I am not an optimist that is naive and overly dismissive of naysayers. But I hope I am more of a glass half full type of guy.

Let this be my mantra … think on true, noble, pure, right, admirable, lovely things.