Dear person loathing in self pity for all that isn't right in your life,
I want to challenge you to think about your complaints before speaking them. Your hair isn't cooperating today , its just too curly or straight or has too many split ends, its frizzy and wants to be everywhere but where its meant to be, its frustrating! You've spent too long in front of that mirror using every product on the shelf and got nowhere. Its been a waste of time and now you throw it in a messed up knot on top of your head and look in disgust at that mess in the mirror. Its a great start to your day. In a little bathroom stall at the hospital a few miles away a young girl wipes the tears from her eyes after running her hands through the few wisps that the chemo hadn't touched yet.
Your job just told you they expect you to work seven days a week, twelve hour shifts. You're exhausted, haven't had more than five hours sleep since god knows when and now they want more out of you, you're underappreciated and curse the name of your employer. A few houses down a father of three just lost his job, and can't find another that pays well enough to support that family of his, he's in tears after the last collection call. His children are hungry and he doesn't know how he's going to keep a roof over his families head.
And then there's that mom who just wants a break, you don't know how not to speak in baby language, your little audience has spent their entire day screaming mama mama mama and demanding for that same blues clues episode to be played the thirtieth time that morning, those clothes you just spent the last hour washing drying and folding were ripped out of the basket before you had chance to put away and that milk your toddler just had to have five minutes before was instead dumped on all those once clean clothes, you've already changed their diaper five times and its smelling again as you try to change them they decide to roll just to give you a better mess to clean up, during nap time you had to stand outside the door and remind them it's night nights for the full hour so they'd stay in bed they finally fall asleep and you have five minutes of peace when the dog barks relentlessly at the harmless squirrel in the tree and wakes up that now cranky monster, you cooked dinner then had to clean spaghetti out of your hair after they decided tossing noodles when your finished in quite appropriate, you're exhausted but still have lunches to pack for the next day a kitchen to clean and clothes to rewash all to start the same process over tomorrow. You're about to lose your mind. That same day a expectant mother went in for a checkup and the doctors couldn't find a heartbeat, she's now in the process of delivering her lifeless child. Another after trying to conceive for two years takes yet another negative pregnancy test and cries uncontrollably knowing that she may never have the chance to experience the chaos you live every day, another mother visits the grave of her laid to rest to soon baby that should be gallivanting through that field not laying beneath it.
You see whatever it is that you find to complain about, someone else may be in tears wishing for your opportunity. The ones that are experiencing the rough side of life are usually the strongest of us. They typically aren't posting every thing that pains them, and seeing your endless whining about the life they would die for just may make it that much more difficult on them. Just think about it and try to appreciate all that may bring you down. It might make your life feel that much more worth living.
