Before you call the road ugly, check whether your windshield needs wiping.

What looks like a bad situation is sometimes a bad view of an ordinary one. Tiredness, low mood, and old resentment all smear the glass, and none of them announce themselves as distortion, which is why the conclusion feels like clear observation. The road may in fact be ugly, but that is not knowable through a dirty window.

Before you decide anything about your job, your friends, or your life, check your own state first. Did you sleep, have you eaten, is something else unresolved? Fix what you can, look again, and trust the second reading more than the first.