Why shouldn't your life be comfortable and rewarding? Have you committed some dreadful crime? Have you been cursed by some malevolent pixie whose mushroom home you have inadvertently trampled under foot on a recent forest walk? Sorry, I know that sounds a little far-fetched but so too, frankly, do all the other reasons why you might now be obliged to put up with ongoing misfortune.  It's time to take some energy from your brain and direct it, instead, towards your heart. There are things you feel very deeply; injustices that hurt, wrongs you would love to rectify, and gestures you yearn to make. Does this world owe us a living? The people around used to feel quite sure that it didn't,we are supposed to work hard for our income, security and status. Yet isn't nature abundant? And why have humans created all these machines if not to free us from drudgery? This world may not 'owe' us anything but it is very willing and able to give us plenty if we approach it in the right spirit