Yesterday, my entire day was a write-off. I didn’t sleep well, and I’d lost my phone the night before, which meant I had a whole headache trying to solve that problem. All I wanted to do was lie around and feel sorry for myself, which I did quite a lot of in the end. It was hardly the most uplifting or productive, but you know what? Sometimes that is what we need.

While it is a bad idea to live in a permanently negative mindset, it’s important to acknowledge that none of us are going to feel on top of the world all of the time. That’s certainly reflected in the world of memes, which has no problem indulging us when we want to throw a pity party or several. The posts below aren’t exactly here to provoke a smile, but they do laugh bitterly at the predicaments we can find ourselves in. Having a sense of humor about such things is important.