My cat does this every single day (apart from the walks bit).

OMG. That's pretty uncommon!

A psychic once told my nanna one of her grandchildren would be a foreign diplomat and she decided it was me. I never knew about this until years later, but kept wondering why she kept going on about foreign diplomacy all the time. (I am not a foreign diplomat).

I think they also forget that not everybody has a car, or access to reliable public transport, or home delivery, either. I've lived in mostly decent neighbourhoods, but some required really long walks to the supermarket and I was lucky I was young and fit at the time.

The little mirror is to make them develop a sense of self as an separate entity from the (m)other.

No, unfortunately. Back to back committee meetings today. :(

Oh, I hate 'poor, but happy'. If you look at maps of happiness, poverty is usually associated with lower happiness scores, not to mention things like war and famine (although happiness ranking methodology is likely flawed). Plus it also depends on who you happen to interact with in a given country.