Macrocosm

If you think of the big picture everything is fine, in fact perfect... In the Macrocosm.
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Our planet is a closed system and has been for the last billion or so years. You can destroy the present state with garbage but really only the tiniest fraction of the surface and we still can't make a real impact. Even if you decided to travel the world, go in a strait line and never stop, you'd be traveling for the rest of your life and still wouldn't have seen or learned everything.

A satellite is falling to earth right now and was in the news but only had a 1 in 3,600 chance of hitting anything or anyone. And that's if it hit land and our planet is around 70% ocean. Even asteroids have such large intergalactic speed compared to the earths orbital speed that just the sheer kinetic energy is as much as a nuclear bomb.

1 million dollars is nothing compared to the entire world economy. Yes you could pay people to do your bidding at 10$ an hour for 10,000 hours(that's 40 hours a week for 5 years), or make successful businesses and prosper, but still it would not make any difference to the world as a whole what you did with that money. Even if millions of people died in some kind of natural disaster, it's just another day in the life of the planet earth. That wouldn't even be as bad as any of the mass extinctions throughout the earths history. Just it's normal cycles.

We may consider our lives extremely crappy at times and get depressed and bored and feel sick or tired but in the big picture we are only one person out of billions, So instead of focusing on your tiny apartment or just your lame city think outside of that box that confines you. So in a sense if you just humbled yourself a little bit and stopped thinking about your personal microcosm, then a little pain or discomfort is nothing at all, compared to the big picture. You need to stand out and be larger than life if you want to compete with the size and grandeur of the world or universe. Lets say you managed a little discomfort and did 30 minutes of exercise a day and ate as little as animals eat. This would make you stand out like a sore thumb in a crowd, and you'd probably feel like you could take on the world too, all for just a tiny bit of discomfort.

You may be concerned about your job but in the big picture you can get another job anywhere in the world even if you're a criminal or suck at everything. In fact it was Gordon Ramsey the famous chef that is now worth over a billion, that said to young aspiring chefs, that you should step outside of your comfort zone, learn a new language, go to new places and see new things, in order to build character because it breeds confidence. Anyways you should be doing something you love doing. If it's a hobby you'll naturally get more practice at it and be better at it. You may even be a savant at something that you didn't know you could do, if you just try doing new things you've never done before. Our brains and hands are multipurpose, and not meant to be wasted.

There are lots of things you don't know, but what if you learned more. Knew more about things then your view of the world would be bigger and you brain used to more of an extent. There is more to know then you can ever know. Our total IQ is probably comparable to the size of a tea cup in an ocean of knowledge. Unless you are a Reductionist and are able to somehow sum up everything in some extremely simple and elegant formula.

All animals are different too and we can learn a lot from them by looking outside of our suburban mindset. Birds in the sky don't bring food with them when they go miles up n the air, and then start to float away. They aren't skinny because they do a lot of exercise, most animals just don't have as much food available to eat as humans. This is obvious when they fight over scraps when you feed them. But they are also humble enough even with such a simple boring life to not go crazy, or complain, or worry.