Rat's Country: "You can't always get what you don't want..."

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."

     Oscar Wilde

 This quote from Oscar Wilde reminded me of an observation from Stumbling on Happiness to the effect that the New Yorker doesn't pay attention to how many times the pigeon doesn't shit on his head.  He only notices how many times it does.