It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.