I have lived within 15 minutes walk to work for about 15 years of my life. They were very pleasant days, the pressure of work could be shrugged off on the way home. But work sometimes (and moreso these days) has a habit of deserting you.

I take the bus a lot and it is a very different proposition these days. Idiots on phones cursing loudly people who aren't listening, phones that can deliver ear damaging music by earphones prefer to blare over the speaker. And kids that have little discipline, and yoof with muddy boots on seats. Those same idiots, even the self-obsessed say thankyou to the driver. Go figure!

this how our species will slide to extinction - there are many factors that will see us off. The insistence that we feed foodstock with anti-biotics so that the bacteria develop resistence is one vector. We are maybe 5-10 years running ahead of the worst bugs, and they are creeping up on us. Amazingly a couple of academics (biology & forensic archeology) recreated a Saxon recipe for curing a sty (infected eyelash follicle) and found it killed 99% of that bug. She explained it that the bugs in Saxon times probably evolved to circumvent the cure which fell out of favour as an effective solution. And in the intervening years had evolved further and without needing to counter the Saxon cure, & lost the particular resistance. We are doing it all over at an ever quickening pace.

Moore's Law applies in many of Man's endeavours. As Ray Kurzweil (in AI) points out, there will be a singularity. There will be a few!