@#-Link-Snipped-# Great topic, like always.

Even I keep pondering over this. When I was a 10 year old kid, once while I went to buy shoes with my parents I made a huge fuss about the kind of shoes I wanted in the shop. On the way back home, at a signal we saw a crowd of beggar kids all without footwear. I immediately went into remorse.

On a later date, I was complaining about the simple food cooked at home and mom scolded me quoting recent figures from the newspaper about the number of people in the world dying of hunger.

Ever since then, whenever I am sad I try to remember that there are people out there who are not as privileged as we are.
It makes you clear your head a bit when we are making unreasonable demands from ourselves or others.

But when I think about it from a general point-of-view, I think that comparing our problems with others is the root cause of all sadness. Every problem is a problem because of that particular individual person's circumstances. A problem that is making you sad could be a very personal one. Sometimes, feeling sad could be a momentary phase. No point in comparing it to people who are facing worse.

I've once created a quote on #-Link-Snipped-# post; let me rephrase it here:

"When the day's done, just ponder back at life and thank everyone who made you happy and think of how many faces you made happy today; then you'd realize where happiness truly exists..."