10 Ways to Realize Your Life Isn’t so Bad

Imagine this.

You’re fresh out of high school. You haven’t even got to experience some of the momentous times in your life — your first serious love, your first real job in your career, your first home.

And you may never get to experience them.

See, right now, you’re on a boat approaching the shores of Northern France, gun in hand. Your boat isn’t first onshore, so you get to watch the carnage you’re soon about to step into — machine-gun fire, landmines, barbwire traps, death, destruction, literal hell on earth.

You’re scared to death, but you soldier on anyway. Not only because you have no choice, but that’s sort of what people did at the time. You pressed forward and joined the cause at the risk of your own life.

Fast forward to today.

I wonder what a World War 2 survivor, or the people who lost loved ones in the war, or the ones who defended their country only to come home to brutal racism, would have to say about the way many people live in our society today — always complaining about every little thing, always outraged about how unfair life is, always feeling threatened.

Living in the modern world isn’t without its own unique problems, but we as modern people living in developed countries tend to manufacture…