Can moaning ever make you happy? | Oliver Burkeman

Railing against minor irritations is like falling out with your partner, then picking fights, over and over, for the sake of it. And when has that ever helped?
There’s a man in Colorado who, it’s safe to say, is pretty irritated by the noise of aircraft approaching and leaving Denver airport, 30 miles from his house. How irritated, exactly? In 2015, he made 3,555 complaints out of 4,870 received by the airport, according to a new research paper. And he’s not unique. Five people