Personally, health wise, I'm better off. Financially, I'm about even. I'm a lot better off than I was during the market meltdown of 08, and as long as the Dow is over 12.5, I'm good.
As for the country, well, there's always someone who'll tell you the country's going to hell in a bucket. My folks were worried that I'd look back on the seventies as 'the good old days.' I worry that today's generation will look back on this s**t-show as the good old days.
Hemorrhoids are God's way of letting you know that, no matter how bad things are, they could always be a little worse. You could be on death row, finished with your last meal, they're gonna kill you at sunup, and your 'rhoids can flare up and make you wish they'd just hurry up.
So, I'm good.