"The Whole World Stinks!"

Sometimes it's about what's wrong 
with us, not the world around us.

I once heard the story of a man who came home very drunk and passed out on his couch, a pattern all too common in his life.

One day his longsuffering wife decided to rub some strong smelling Limburger cheese on his mustache while he was in that state, thinking it might rouse him from his stupor. When it finally did, he immediately looked around him in disgust. "Something smells terrible in here," he said, and staggered around the house trying to figure out where the foul odor was coming from.

Having no success, he finally stepped outside, looked all around and yelled, "The whole world stinks!"

That's how it may seem when we see the world through the lens of our own misery, our own depression, our own negativity.

But the problem, and the solution, may be much closer home.

Like right under our nose.