From 1347–1351 , one third of the total population of Europe was wiped out by The Black Death .

The Mongols slaughtered 5% of the worlds population.

Nearly 150,000 people died by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.

It’s awful I know .

Now let’s look at our problems : Having too much food to eat , Nobody liking our photos on Instagram , Depression and Anxiety .

It seems to me that we , as a society, are going through a incredible yet disheartening period . Incredible,because we have great resources,it’s more peaceful than ever,more liberal (in some sense ) than ever . Yet , disheartening because we are not realizing how awesome it really is .

Picture this , whenever you fly to wherever , you are basically sitting on a char in mid-air . How awesome is that .

Currently , infant mortality rate is 96 deaths per thousand births 1,000 in Angola ( which is the highest rate in the world ) .

During the 1800's this rate was upwards of 40% . That means 4 out of every 10 children died before there first birthday . That sucks .

We are currently living well into our 70’s , a rare feat when you compare it to the average age of a guy living the early 1900’s ,which was just 31 .

So , what’s my point : Be Grateful . I know , I am sorry to be the 9999th guy to be saying this out loud on the Internet , but damn , we need to hear this . Everyday , when we wake up , we get to see our parents , sibling , pets , significant other and everyone else who matters. Just imagine living a world where everyone you loved was at a constant threat of being killed . Imagined it ? . Good , because that was the world in which our ancestors lived . Heck ! even our parents when through the Cold War , a time where a single press of a button could cause nuclear mayhem and the end of our species . We are incredibly lucky to be living in this kind of an environment where most of us do not have to constantly worry about dying .

For every single reason to be sad there are thousands not to be . We need to collectively see our lives as not missing something but as having the most important thing : Life .

Another cool fact , whenever a star ( yes , the big hot things in space ) dies , it blows up resulting in a supernova . Now that supernova contains high energy radiation known as Gamma Rays . What do these rays do , well , they burn everything in their path . But why am I giving you a physics lecture ? . You see there is a certain possibility that these rays are coming towards us right now . So what will happen when they hit us ? . Well there are two scenarios .One , it turns our planet into ash ,or, Two, it destroys the ozone layer leaving us completely vulnerable to the radiation of The Sun . Either ways we die .

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Horrified ? .

Now consider another scenario of this kind . Maybe a nuclear war .

Don’t be afraid . I’m not a weirdo . All I am trying to say is that things could be much worse and it was much worse in the past . But now , life is amazing .

So chill out and realize that the world you are living in is just breathtakingly amazing . So ,unlike me , don’t complain or be anxious because things could’ve been much worse.