So I completely understand if you're not going to be a fan of another cheesy "look at all the people who have it worse than you" post, but I'm going to write this anyway just because this thought is something that has been able to keep me really grounded for the past couple of years. The fact that you were able to make this post suggests you live a life of comfort more than the majority of humanity alive today. The fact that you're born in this day and age suggests you live a life far more luxurious than the 90-95% who've ever existed, that are now dead. Somewhere out there in a savanna, a wounded dear is being eaten half-alive by jackals, feeling grievously unimaginable terror and agony in its final moments, all because death couldn't come for it quickly enough. Go far back enough and this was a situation that wasn't unfathomable for a human to find themselves in. The total amount of suffering in the natural world right now outside of human civilization is beyond all decent contemplation. Picture yourself bleeding out to death in the aftermath of a predator attack, or living in a world before antibiotics, and feeling powerless about losing a dying loved one to an illness. Think about how you wouldn't think twice about swapping positions with your current self if given the chance. The natural world is just this obscenely cruel - it's the way things are meant to be. The fact that we can languish in earnest about concerns far outside of the immediate survival of ourselves or someone we love is testament to how much we've conquered most of the harshest cruelties nature would impose upon us. This isn't to take away from the legitimacy of those grievances, so much as it's just to draw attention to the privilege and luxury that underlie them. Yes, a stutter is a shit hand to have been dealt. And yet in the grand scheme, your overall hand can't be too terrible when we take into view your status as a beneficiary of all the advances of the 21st century.