Nicholas Bate –

Get on with it. Less victim, more volunteer. There are some for whom life has not been fair: we need to support them in whatever way we can. But for many of us, life is simply messy. Planet Earth-consistently voted the Best Planet in the Known Universe-cannot be perfect. It’s far too complex a system: there will be glitches. The energy put into complaining, attempting ‘to fix’ those who disagree and the simply being unpleasant is energy which could be spent hiking, building extra shelves for those wonderful second-hand books you bought or helping those more elderly safely across the road.