What's important?

There seems to be so many people who really are living in their own world and not focusing on the 'bigger' picture...

I see so many of these people in my daily life, now dont get me wrong Im not 100% perfect (almost but not quite!!) and I have a good moan about things as much as the next man but negativity seems to be so rife within our society today. I know so many people who don't ever seem to be happy and I genuinely feel sorry for them.

What ever happened to looking at the positives? Yes bad things happen and are happening not just in the world but for some of us in our own lives but for every bad thing can we not honestly say that there are twice as many good things?

And my biggest peeve...why oh why do we only pray when things are going wrong???? Should we not also thank God when things are going right? Human nature I suppose, when things are going great you love life and what it throws at you, when things are going bad you blame God...how can there be a God if he's letting this happen???
Only answer I can give to that is where there is good there is also evil, and evil has a way of getting in when you are low.
God gave humans the gift of freewill and we need to remember that.