At 7 a.m., I roll out of bed to look on my phone to see what my “friends” did last night. After “liking” all the recent pictures on Instagram and viewing all the “stories” on Snapchat, I click on Twitter. The first thing I see is “I want to take a shower, but my maid is cleaning the bathroom #firstworldproblems.”

In America, many complaints revolve around things that should be viewed as blessings. We all fall short when it comes to noticing how blessed our lives are. I find myself hating how long the heater takes to warm up the car on the way to school. Sometimes the worst thing that happens in my day is when two users are already on my family’s Netflix account, so I have to go watch television downstairs.

According to Hunger Statistics, one in nine people on Earth are starving. It’s very ironic that 795 million people in the world are starving and the rest spend around $45/month on gym memberships.

If most of America has the luxury of being able to spend that much money on trying to lose weight, then our society needs to change the way we look at things.

With New Year’s resolutions just starting, it’s never too late to begin a more selfless attitude. Instead of complaining about every little thing that goes wrong in your day, think about how blessed you are to even have the opportunity for that thing to go wrong. Everything can be seen as a blessing. Any negative situation can be turned into a positive with an optimistic point of view.

Another thing to take into consideration is how less fortunate people would act in your situation. Anyone who doesn’t have the newest toys or clothes would be thrilled to receive hand-me-downs. Instead of focusing on all the things you might not have, focus on all the things you do have.

I am nowhere near perfect at following this advice. I find myself daily complaining about not liking what’s for dinner when people all over don’t even know where their next meal will come from. I’m not asking myself or anyone else to be perfect either because that is impossible.

However, I am asking that the next time you find yourself tweeting about how awful it is when your freshly painted nails smudge, delete the tweet, because “first world problems” aren’t problems.