"No matter how good our luck is, we get used to it, and trudge forward on the hedonic treadmill, as miserable as we ever were." Step off the treadmill and be grateful!

Opinion | The pandemic has been awful. It could have been so much worse.
Had the coronavirus hit even a few years earlier, more of us would have gotten sick. And more of us would have lost loved ones, businesses and jobs.
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