Heaven and hell

You may be a few miles from me or a few thousand.  Living your life, such as it is today, you may think you're in heaven, or in hell, just as I,  a few or a few thousand miles from you, may think of being in heaven or hell.

Wherever you may be, I find myself  in hell's deepest pit.

“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell”, famously said Aldous Huxley.

I walked the streets of the city yesterday afternoon, a warm and sunny summer day, looking into people's faces and trying to judge their happiness level from 0 to 10, zero being my own level and ten being the level of, I don't know, the recently married British royal couple perhaps.  I saw many happy people, most of them young and a few unhappy ones, all of them old. I saw many eights, nines and tens, and maybe not any zeroes, but a lot of ones and twos.