1. If you are one of nearly 150 million Americans involved in the school system in some fashion, the school year is coming to an end. A proud crop of seniors will be graduating to the next level, and us on the teaching side of the equation will be taking time off. The upside for everyone else? Traffic will be greatly reduced, and vacations will be plentiful.
2. Odds are you smiled today. That smile comes for a variety of reasons, each of them belonging solely to you. As corny as it sounds, every day that we smile provides us motivation to make it another day.
3. Superman can’t possibly be as underwhelming as Iron Man III. Zack Snyder just isn’t that guy.
4. The Knicks are going to disappoint a great number of people very shortly. New York will be pissed on a near Sanchez-level. Haters rejoice.
5. You aren’t dead yet.
6. If you are dead, the worst is over.
7. You are reading the nearly 1100th post from a writer who spent decades being lazy and unmotivated. Yet here we are hurtling towards year three and there’s not an ounce of quit in me. If I can do this, then I feel like anyone can get off their butt and succeed. Smile on that.
8. You aren’t Jodi Arias.
9. Jodi Arias didn’t shoot you, nor were you captured by a weird hispanic dude and forced into sexual slavery for a decade. There’s that.
10. There’s this too: We all have the ability in this country to change our lives and change our station. Things can always be worse.