From Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet: HAMLET: Denmark's a prison. ROSENCRANTZ: Then is the world one. HAMLET: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. ROSENCRANTZ: We think not so, my lord. HAMLET: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. Hamlet's assertion is that thinking is what decides good and bad. Why not feeling, which seems to be the usual way we value one thing above another, or perhaps some mixture of the two? Or is it that when Hamlet says "thinking" we should read "wishing"? In other words, Shakespeare is saying that morality is whatever we want it to be. Suffering is, after all, usually justified as right or necessary by those who cause it, or allow it. Shakespeare thus forces us to question whether reason alone is sufficient to distinguish right from wrong, true from false, mad from sane.

How you feel about your circumstances is your choice. Is this a good or bad answer? Think about it.

I agree with Jura!