It's Monday morning.

I snooze my alarm at least 10 times every day, but Mondays are by far THE hardest mornings to get myself out of bed. I finally muster the courage to get up and get somewhat ready - enough to make me look like a normal-ish human being. I get in my car to make the long 20 minute trek to my Downtown classes at ASU, knowing very well that I'm going to be there until at LEAST 5pm. Gross. I try to start up my car ...

and ...

nothing.

It doesn't turn on.

OF COURSE THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME, I immediately think in my head. OF COURSE MY BATTERY WOULD BE DEAD ON A MONDAY 30 MINUTES BEFORE MY CLASS STARTS THAT I CANNOT MISS.

I call my mom immediately (mom, if you're reading this, thanks for keeping me sane) and she tells me to just call AAA and get it figured out. I reluctantly skip class and try getting my battery replaced. Fortunately, AAA comes quickly and fixes my car - but, of course gives me a $200 bill in return.

HA. yup, of course. I just love my life. I'm broke and now expected to pay this bill I didn't even deserve to happen to me. Oh, and to make things even worse on this fine Monday, I get BACK into my car after a long day of classes, only to find a nice little note that says PARKING VIOLATION FEE for being 10 minutes over my meter time with an $80 fee attached to it.

This can not be happening to my life right now. I don't even know what to say. I'm truly at a loss for words. Worst day ever.

I'm sure you're reading this and can recall your own "worst day ever." It's because, unfortunately, these bad days are just simply life. I know this, you know this, we all know this. We've all had the lecture given to us that "life is not a bunch of rainbows," or some cliché metaphor like that. It still doesn't make these days any happier or easier to move on from.

I finally go to bed on that dreadful Monday, and realize something that, once again, I already know, but needed to hear again.

Although my day was "bad" to me, it was definitely a good day for someone else. I think we all tend to focus entirely too much on what happened wrong, what we didn't accomplish, or what we didn't receive in our day - when we could think more on our blessings and out successes in our LIFE.

It sounds cliché, but a bad day really is just a bad day. It's temporary. It stings. But our days aren't necessarily bad if we change our outlook on them. I'm thankful that I HAVE a car to break. I'm thankful I get to go to the school of my dreams and live in an amazing city where I GET to have parking fees. Whenever I'm experiencing these rough times, I will remember to take a step back and remind myself of the GOOD. I encourage you to try this on your own too. It just might transform your next "bad day."