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It should be no secret that I hold a disdain for unwarranted whining. A manifestation of this I feel I need to address are the peoples who say "my life sucks" or similar. Now, I can get on board with "well, that sucked", "the weather sucks", or even "today sure sucked." But to say that your WHOLE LIFE sucks? I'm sorry, but no.

Allow me to be more specific on that. If your life supposedly sucks, then let me ask: Are you terminally ill? Did you just lose multiple limbs? Did a close loved one unexpectedly die? Are you being routinely beaten? Do you have a place to live? Are you warm in winters? Do you wonder when or if your next meal will be? Were you the victim of a violent crime? Do you have legitimate grounds to worry about being shot or blown up by a suicide bomber on a regular basis?  Are you serving a prison term for a crime that you did not commit?

If you were able to truthfully answer "yes" to any of those questions, then I will concede that you have "earned the right" to declare your life sucks. However, if you answered "no," do these questions maybe put your complaints into perspective?

Are you saying your life sucks because of something maybe not so important in the grand scheme of not just the universe, but your entire life? So that girl you like wouldn't go with you to the prom. Boo hoo. Maybe that girl sucks or even the specific situation, but that's no reason to give up on your whole life! Okay, it's not happenstance that I used the prom as an example. I did so because let's face it, most people who wantonly proclaim that their sucks are teenagers. Ya know what, kids? Get over it! In the immortal words of Kyle Broflovski, "try living in a third world country!" There are people who have things far worse. For starters, if you are even reading this, it means that you have access to the internet. This tells me that if you have an internet connection taken care of, that you must have the much more fundamental things in order such as a place to live, clothes to wear and food to eat (if you don't then maybe you have your priorities a teensy out of order?). There are thousands of people who don't have these basics covered. There are people starving, homeless, and riddled with disease, but yeah YOUR life sucks. Allow me to not shed any tears for you.

And yes, my life isn't exactly perfect, but that doesn't mean that it sucks. I get squirrels in my attic, my property taxes keep going up, my check engine light comes on far too often, there is a streetlight outside my window that glares right in my eyes at night when I want to sleep, I have to drive 130 miles to buy comic books, and I was duped into paying $8 to see Rob Zombie's Halloween in the theater. That's just a few of my line items of things I don't like about my life, but it still doesn't suck when I look at the bad things and compare them to all the good things. The good things are just so much better than the bad things are bad that they MORE than make up for it all. I have a job that I am good at, I am able to afford to buy comic books, I have several viable options for dinner in my cupboards and the knowledge that I have the luxury of or ordering out if I feel like it, I built a brand new garage and am in the process of making it just how I want it on the inside, and I have several good friends who are of the calibre of friend that I know I could call on any of them to help me move a dead body in the middle of the night with no questions asked. Yeah, that good stuff is pretty damn good and it makes me feel like a weasel to even complain about the bad stuff I've got so much good going on.

I suppose the bottom line here is really that the next time you feel like make the declaration that your life sucks, maybe take a second to contemplate all the good stuff instead of focusing purely on the bad. You can go right ahead and state that a certain situation sucks like being single right now or being passed over for a promotion, yeah those specific things suck, okay, but not your whole life, if you stop to think about it.

William the Bloody (the good life)