Bad days will happen to you. Bad days happen to me, they happen to your friends, they happen to your family, and they happen to people all over.

You cannot always control the factors that go into a bad day. Some things are so out of your control and out of mind that you may not even pay attention to them until they happen to you. Other factors of a bad day are ones you may be able to control, but because of the place, the person, or the lack of motivation you have, the bad day just welcomes itself.

For a small example, if I choose not to shower for a certain set of time, I know that my hair is not going to be my friend. I know that by ignoring my hair and not giving it a rinse, it is going to be a bad hair day.

But not all bad days are as simple as that. Bad days or a link of bad days can happen for so many reasons and be connected to so many parts of your life and who you are. All in all, bad days will happen to you. And although you will not always be able to control that, you can control what you do with a bad day.

The first part that you can do is kind of what I just explained, accept that they happen. You can just go, “Okay, yup. This day is not going to be the best one ever”.

This part is important because it is taking a moment to validate your feelings and what you are going through. Whether it was because there was no milk left in the fridge for your cereal or your socks got extra soaked because that puddle that was much deeper than you expected.

Many things will cause you to feel so many emotions and feelings, and you won’t always know what to do. You are going to feel angry, sad, disappointed, confused, jealous, hurt, lonely. I know that these words aren’t always nice to hear because we all can recognize and remember feeling them and wishing we didn’t.

I will tell you, though, these feelings and emotions get a lot easier to handle and learn from once you accept that you will feel them and that they will be ones that help you grow as a good human being.

So that’s the first part, accept and embrace that this day is a sub-par, not favorable, and tough day.

I realize that this sounds harsh and rough, and I don’t mean it that way. It is just much better to recognize that bad days happen versus failing to ever acknowledge or accept that you are having a bad day.

I will end by reminding you that what I have learned and what I share, is based on my experience and my thought processes, everyone is unique in how they handle their lives. So what I say here can only be taken and read with a grain of salt, you must learn for yourself how you plan to deal with bad days.