But it depends a lot
on what parameters and factors the survey uses.
Life is not only about
jobs, comforts, money.
Joy of living, the
pleasure of leisure, enormous freedom of expression and freedom to pursue any
activity not necessarily illegal or immoral but beyond the purview of legal
frame work, enough people around to interact without inhibitions, common
cultural bonds, happy moments, good and varieties of climatic conditions, less
monitoring and less policing, healthy competition and some space for dissent,
devoid of suffocating controls, affordable cost of living and available means
of living for people from various strata of population etc.
I think we cannot talk
high of a country which is a well constructed glorified mall with some
specified animal and bird zones like zoos and bird parks, shopping centers,
recreation parks with only a port, trading and high value financial institutions
alone.
Often some of these
data are interesting, useful and worth comparing to improve on certain aspects.
However, often
these statistics are also like a lady in a swimming suit what they reveal may
be interesting but they conceal may be vital.
For example in the
name of security one cannot individual liberty to do what he wants when
he wants without harming others and carrying with joy the happiness the way he
wants.
Hyper reactive, hyper
sensitive and paranoid prevention of certain activities is pathetic. For
example one nation a father or mother cannot bathe his or her own child of 4
years. another nation you cannot use mixies to grind anything inside your house
( where the nearest neighbor is 300 meters away) after 6 p.m. So, you cannot
have sabhjis and chutni, another country you cannot look into the eyes of a
person and talk, another country one cannot eat during a particular month
during day time.
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