If

• If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills…
• If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains…
• If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles…
• If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it…
• If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time…
• If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no fault of yours, something goes wrong…
• If you can take criticism and blame without resentment…
• If you can face the world without lies and deceit…
• If you can conquer tension without medical help…
• If you can relax without liquor…
• If you can sleep without the aid of drugs…
• If you can do all these things…

…then you’re probably the family dog.

(via iwiggins)