Are you having a bad day? Your $600 phone isn’t working to your preferred speed or you spilt that cup of orange juice again? Try to remember that things could be worse:

Someone you don’t even know could call you ugly or a loser. Hurtful words could follow your footsteps and enter your home as your mother says “you’re not doing anything with your life!” and your father is either passed out in an inebriated mist or only lives in the photographs in your room. Look in the mirror and starve yourself for not resembling digital beauty. Walk outside to try to get away, but your car is stolen and if you’re late one more time, you’re fired. You find out the love of your life has been cheating on you with one of your friends or you fall for the best friend whose stare is looking through you and not at you. Without your job, you can’t pay child support for the child you had at age 15. You weren’t able to finish high school and can’t find anywhere that will hire you. Your child tells you they hate you because they didn’t ask to be brought into this world and your mother tells you that she has been diagnosed with cancer. Your family is disappearing and your friends walk out of your life as their compassion is washed down the drain. A desperate man breaks into your house and rapes you and your child. Flames dance over the evidence and everything you owned is gone. As you’re being taken to the hospital, a truck runs a stop sign and hits the ambulance. Your child didn’t make it and you’re paralyzed from the waist down. Your only friends are suicidal thoughts as you’re lying on a bed that you can’t afford to stay in another minute.

Bad things happen to each and every one of us every day, most of them being annoyances more than tragic events. Before you throw your expensive phone at the wall, put down someone for getting your order wrong, honk your horn at the driver in front of you, yell at your kids out of stress, or yell that you hate your life, try to remember, that things could be worse.