Life is hard. As you age, some parts of it get better while other parts get worse. All you can control is your attitude toward those things. You have to shrug off the bad and be grateful for the good, and that’s the way to be happy. A image challenge at Cracked produced some visualizations of life ahead for young people that will make you laugh -if you don’t take it too seriously or personally. This one really struck home:
My kids, at 17 and 19, are in the valley of respect. That’s comforting in a way, because the only way to go from here is up. See all 14 charts at Cracked.