To feel true joy and gratitude require that you have been unhappy and omissions in life, known pain. Ying and yang! In fact, they luckiest people I've met during my journey in life, are those who live on the knife-edge of poverty. Those people need each other, which people do not need welfare and hence, greater emotional emptiness. This proves that ownership is a short-term substitute for happiness, then the need for each other in the form of help and support is essential for well-being, happiness.