However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
Your children get only one childhood.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.