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You know, despite the bad things that have happened, life isn't that bad.
I have a roof over my head, a close knit family (I know my third cousins well), food (as soon as we go grocery shopping), great friends, the best best friend, and a good look on the future. I like to say to my aunt and cousins, "I never have a problem with life because I pretend it's better than it is." I don't deny my surroundings. What I mean is, I look on things and allow myself to laugh, to find irony, beauty, anything good at all. If you don't allow yourself to see the better things in life, you're never gonna be happy. No one can be if all they see is the bad.
And don't be a pansy and say there isn't any good. If you don't try to make some good with what you have, all you'll have is a piece of crap life. When you get a lump of coal, try to turn it into a diamond, or even let it be coal and draw a picture. It's better than just crying over stuff.