On the topic of (lack of) focus

Following a recent post, I came to think of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, an old colleague had pasted up on a kitchen cupboard - a strip in which the conclusion is the following one-liner from the mouth of Calvin: "Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
I am afraid that we modern people have become so focused in our search of euphoria that we cannot hear happiness when it comes knocking on our door. That we have become too focused on how much more that could be poured into the glass of our life that we do not recognize that it is well above half way full. And that we have become too focused on pouring into our own glass without regards to the fact that what we have to fill it with is also important for others' attempts to fill their glasses. And we have thereby become too bad to focus on what is really important.
Now, fortunately, our deceased ancestors are not here to look at us. Because I am really afraid that they would be disappointed to see how we handle glasses, which already contain much more than what would have filled their glasses far beyond spilling over the edge.
(Translated from Noget om (manglende) fokus, originally published March 27, 2016)