You’re having one of those days. You know what I’m talking about. You wake up and you just know nothing is going to be easy. Your cup breaks on your walk to the bus. Coffee spills down your book bag and seeps into your notebooks. For the rest of the day you smell a little like white mocha and espresso. The bus passes you and you have to make the trek uphill to your first class. You’re late. You realize you forgot a paper deadline. Your best friend is mad at you, and you don’t know why.

You look in the mirror. Your hair is frizzy. You are just now noticing the way you haphazardly put on your eyeliner this morning. Your clothes are a little rumpled and you realize you didn't brush your teeth.

You make it home and you feel like everything has been a fight. You fought the world and on this day the world won.

But when one of those days comes around—those days where you feel like nothing is ever going to go right again, or those days when you just feel sad, or lonely, or misplaced—you just have to remember that even a bad, terrible, horrible day only lasts twenty-four hours. Tonight, when it is all said and done, no matter how defeated you feel, you’re going to crawl into bed and it will be over.

Tomorrow will be different. Tomorrow is a chance for everything to change; a chance to leave everything about your terrible, horrible day behind and start anew.

So if you woke up this morning feeling like it was going to be one of those days, remember that it is all going to be alright. Twenty-four hours is a lot shorter than you think. And if the end, I guarantee you'll have a lot more hours of happiness than you might think.