Bragging rights

Humans just love to brag. When you’re a kid it’s who has the best parents, toys, bike etc. In you’re twenties and thirties it’s all who has the best job, most money, best car etc. But then the bragging criteria changes from who has it the best to who has it the worst. Social networking sites for people in their forties and fifties often tell hard luck stories as if to say ‘you think you’ve had it hard? Wait to hear my story!” Later in life in the retirement home, it’s all about who has the most ailments ’If I just had what you’ve got, I’d consider myself lucky!’