Every time I catch myself not realising how great my life is, I remind myself of this list:

The most powerful man in the world and ruler of Rome, Emperor Augustus, slept on a sack of straw.

Marie Antoinette, the future queen of France, lived in an era where people threw their bathroom visits out of the window. As she strolled around the palace of Versailles, someone emptied their bathroom visit from the top floor and drenched Marie.

Speaking of Queens, Queen Elizabeth I's teeth were black from decay. The Queen was convinced that cleaning them with sugar would help, but it only accelerated her rotting mouth.

Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar never experienced a hot shower. Hot showers as we know them today weren’t invented until the 1860s, and didn’t become common for the average person until the ~1960s.

I forgot about air conditioning because it silently works for me 24-7: In 1881, as President Garfield lay dying, engineers had to gather over half a million pounds of ice and blow air over the ice in an attempt to keep the president’s room cool.

I started my day dancing on the graves of dead problems that dead people thought could never die.