We are failing pretty bad then.
Compare: Quality of life in the 1600s, 1800s, 1900s, and present day. Look at what has changed as time has progressed.
He had his worst day yet.
His everyday school was stuff that day.
His girlfriend decided to dump him for no reason.
His grandma died.
And he will probably experience worse even before he's 17.
Holy loving stuff you're an starfish.
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Bro, when I was seven years old my cat had decided to sleep under the hood of a car, and it got started, basically butchering her alive, and I was the first one to see her.
Granted, he may have been pretty attached to his grandparent, and I can't relate since I'm emotionally disconnected from my entire family because my mother is a psychologically abusive shrew who lives in her own childish world and has been the source of the majority of my own self hatred during my early teenage years, and my father is never around.
Just saying, it's not exactly like I'm living a sheltered life. I've experienced my share of terribad stuff and I'm not being angsty about it.