Scratch the surface, and people are the same.

There's a short story about a man who dies and goes to heaven. A person appears, and says the man can have whatever he wants. The man asks for this, and that, and voila! He gets it. Whatever he wants. His slightest wish gets fulfilled immediately.

But after a while, he gets bored. He asks the person, he didn't think heaven would be so boring. The person replies, you aren't in heaven, you're in hell.

Be careful what you wish for.

I wish at least to be protected by the army in some disastrous circumstances, I think. Pathetic or not.

My dad told me that during WW2, if a young man was walking down the street in street clothes (rather than in uniform) he'd be spat on.