I believe one of the greatest obstacles to happiness today is a pessimistic, cynical, or even hopeless feeling about the future. Let’s call it a dystopian attitude. The opposite is the naïve, impossible, and often destructive utopian attitude. But there is less extreme and realistic approach that transcends these apocalyptic and puritanical visions, which simply seeks to make tomorrow a little better than today by solving whatever problems and making whatever advancements we can.