Unfortunately, most letters to the editor of newspapers are complaints, about buses, roads, migrants and so on.

As an obsessive complainer myself, I take the opportunity to apologise to those whose feelings I may have hurt through my letters to the editor.

How nicer it would be if we practised gratitude instead of complaining when things go wrong. It’s always tempting to criticise others and find fault in this and that, but if we balance our criticism by three times more praise, no one would be a loser.

A negative attitude turnspeople off, and as the sayings go, “Be the change you wish to see in the world”, and “Change what you can, but try to endure what you cannot”.