Active citizenship: If the state is responsible for creating the conditions that are making us sad or unhappy, our reaction to it as citizens is helping to perpetuate those conditions, making us equally complicit.
Every resident of Dhaka knows well how much stress one has to cope with just to survive every day. They don’t need reminding that their capital city is the seventh least liveable city in the world, or Bangladesh the seventh saddest nation.
The Global Emotions Report said there are five significant contributors to the rise of global unhappiness: Poverty, bad communities, hunger, loneliness, and the scarcity of good work. Voila. The personal just became political.