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Good advice.
Odds are with them. And shouldn't we all be counting our blessings as part of being competent adults? Not just to be as happy as we can be in our situations, but also and especially so we will work harder to protect them and make wiser choices in future as citizens.
Here's a Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come for perspective: These are some ex- middle class urbanites in the once relatively advanced nation of Venezuela. Instead of ordering a pizza to eat while binge-watching cable during Christmas vacation from work, as some might once have done, they're waiting hours to enter a supermarket for whatever they'll find on the shelves at enormously inflated prices.
Mostly, though, the streets have become too dangerous (criminals, Maduro's collectivos, police), even in the daytime, to spend much time out, so masses of unemployed people tend to remain inside amap with their children. Most have cars and are much safer locked in them when out; but while gas is still cheap, car parts and tires may be impossible to get. I've forgotten the median weight loss per capita from inadequate food, but I think it's somewhere around 20 pounds.
A lot of unfortunate choices by citizens over the years went into creating that scene. That society failed to protect what they had.
Merry Christmas from two retired Americans living in luxury and comfort on very modest fixed income. And in safety in spite of Covid. WE don't have to stand for hours in line because we'd starve if we didn't.
