How you feel about your life depends on how you feel today.

You wake up feeling like shit. You drank too much last night or you argued with your mate or you have a baffling assignment in a class or on your job, and you've tossed and turned all night. The alarm goes off, and you haven't had enough sleep. You get up, because you're a good worker bee, and you make your way to class or to your job or go about getting your kids off to school, etc. But you feel awful. Tired and sleepy, maybe a headache or vague chest pains. You would like nothing better than to lie down in a dark room and sleep all day. But you know you can't. You might even think that life is not worth living. You haven't turned out to be the person you thought you would be. Your marriage/relationship isn't what you'd hoped for. The day stretches ahead like an endless desert. Should you just end it all? Put yourself out of your misery? Make arrangements for the mate, for friends, for the kids -- write a note, lay out some supper, etc. If you haven't guessed already, this goes back to an earlier posting that said something life this: If you want to commit suicide, wait until tomorrow. It's true: the way you feel today is not the way you will feel tomorrow, and it's not even a true reflection of how you look at life. You may very well be a positive person simply having a bad day. You could wake
up tomorrow, having had a good night's sleep, and feel good about everything all over again.
We are creatures of the mind and of the flesh: we get bummed and bored and depressed and have real problems just getting out of bed, much less putting one foot in front of the other. It's common to all of us, so don't feel alone. Instead, do yourself a favor and lay off the booze for a night, avoid the toxic people in your life for a day, and try not to think about what you have to do tomorrow. Rent a movie you like and sit up in bed eating something you want and then turn the light off at a reasonable time and go to sleep. Chances are your view of the world and your life will be quite different in the morning. I've tried it. I know. Repeat as necessary.