Each morning brings a new day to experience successes and laughs but also disappointments and failures.

While we definitely wouldn't mind the good parts, there's not much we can do to avoid the bad ones. However, we can control how we react to them. We must constantly make an effort to shelter ourselves from things that cause us unnecessary stress and anxiety. We have to make deliberate efforts to protect our peace.

Protecting your peace entails cutting out or adding things to your life in order to minimize the amount of stress and pressure you feel on a daily basis, as well as to just get through the day. Doing this is essential to our well-being and mental health because we are not allowing needless things put a strain on our already hectic lives.

Making the effort to protect your life's peace is not a matter of selfishness: it's looking out for your best interests.

So whether that means unfollowing a friend on Instagram because of the way they use their platform or declining a party invitation to stay in and relax, you should do it. Don't worry about what others might think of you doing something that you know is important for your mental health. Your well-being is far more important than anyone's opinions or any obligation you might feel for that person.

In this world that's full of so much hate, crime, and dishonesty, we must take any steps that we can to secure the peace we've established in our lives. We cannot let anyone or any circumstances take it away from us because it's one of the only things we can truly depend on.