I know so many people who are always 'doom and gloom' and praise the 50's for it's simplicity (not my words!) or believe that our generation is destroying the earth etc. Throughout my life and still, I am an eternal optimist, so quite naturally I believe these are wonderful times! Also, in university as an english/history and sociology student, I quickly realised the positives in this era as compared to many many horrors of the past. But most significantly, as a teenager I remember my grandparents coming over to visit simply to see our new microwave. My father throughout the evening kept putting cheese on bread inside the microwave so my grandma and grandpa could watch the cheese melt. They sat in awe, for hours, watching our 'microwave tv' :) That was my first 'ah-ha'moment...realising just how lucky I was! Cheers!