A sense of perspective

There are numerous whinges on this Forum about dogs, speeding, kids, arrival, departure, loo block closure etc. I share a quote from a book my wife is reading of a traffic warden's thoughts about a tirade about a ticket.

"Get down on your knees! Be grateful! A billion people living on a dollar a day, as many who can't find clean drinking water, you live in a country where there is a promise to feed, clothe, shelter and doctor you, from the moment of your birth to the moment of your death, for free, where the state won't come and beat or imprison you or conscript you, were life expectancy's one of the longest in the world, where the government does not lie to you about Aids, and the only bad thing is the climate, and you find it in yourself to complain about parking? Woe, woe! Down on your knees in gratitude that you can even notice this minor irritation! Praise God for the fact that you resent getting this ticket, instead of rending your clothes with grief because you lost another child to dysentery or malaria! Sing hosannas when you fill out the little green form in the envelope stuck to your windscreen! For you, you of the deservedly punished five minute overstay, you of the mis-interpreted resident's bay area, you of the ignored Loading Only sign, are of all people who lived the most fortunate."