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Phrase: End of the world
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Have you ever become tired of people telling you to smile and be happy?
How many times has someone said, ‘It isn’t the end of the world!” when you complained about a bad day?
I know. It ticks you off and makes you want to throw something at them.
But you know what? They are right.
No matter how bad you may think things are, it isn’t the end of the world.
The world doesn’t care if you are having a bad day.
It doesn’t pay attention to how things are going for you, and it’s not going to stop because you have a terminal illness, lost your job, or the local supermarket no longer stocks your favourite ice cream.
Yes, absolutely, it is a significant event in your life.
It most certainly is not, however, the end of the world.
Technically speaking, the phrase end of the world means a disastrous destiny or at least a very unpleasant few seconds before the earth and all that it contains explodes into googol pieces.
Humans, that’s you and me, tend to blow things out of proportion.
We exaggerate, especially when bad things upset the balance of our lives.
As a person grows older, we are, apparently, supposed to gain wisdom.
Perhaps that’s what this is, but I’ve noticed that I become calmer and more accepting of things as I age.
Sure, I still get pi**ed off at things all the time, but I now know that tomorrow is another day, and more than likely, things will be better.
Try to remember this the next time you think it’s the end of the world.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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