I've been listening to one person with real troubles and missed a voicemail from abroad from a friend with real trouble. These people make me say to everyone else: get a grip.
Really. A cold is nothing to sneeze at (yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist), but it's not a life-threatening illness. Problems with party arrangements? Who gives a flying fuck? Cellulite issues? Pah. Someone doesn't return your calls? Get a grip.
Deathly ill children, bankruptcy filings, parents dying, getting hit by a car (SNV -- I'm looking at you -- you told the moron who hit you -- the pedestrian he hit while running a red light -- that you were fine and DIDN'T even get insurance information because you're such a stoic, and then realized, oops, you felt pretty bad; lucky for you, Ex-Marine Fred loves you buckets or he would have given you injuries the car accident didn't, and no, I'm not promoting domestic violence. You'd hurt him worse, I know, I knowthat you were fine: "No broken bones!" you gladly pronounced.), having a miscarriage, life-threatening illness, impending surgery, getting fired, a suicidal friend: these are real trouble. Everything else? Survivable.
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I agree that priorities are needed. Right now, every time I grumble to myself about some tiny thing going wrong, I toss it out the window and say, at least my sister isn't dying (found out that a dear friend--we've been good friends since we were a year old!--is going to lose her little sister, whom I was around to see the day she came home from the hospital as a seven year old, within the next three years or so...and she's only 32). Yup. I'll take the piddly things going on in my life just fine, thanks, as long as I'm spared losing my sister. Bleh.
I innocently asked someone today how her Masters degree was going.
"Oh, its kind of 'on-hold' at the moment" she said.
"How come?" I innocently asked
Her reply was a bit of a shock: she'd been involved in a bike (presumably motorbike) accident and had damaged her spine so had been in hospital and off work for 3 months, her Mother-in-Law had died suddenly, her Mother had developed breast cancer and her marriage had collapsed - all in a *6* month period!
After hearing things like that just about any day-to-day 'problem' I might think I have pails into insignificance.... and there she was, smiling and being her usual efficient self in her day job. I was, as you might imagine, very impressed.
Yeah, it's been a death and destruction year in my family, and everything else seems pretty small. You know, don't sweat the small stuff, and comparably speaking, it's all small stuff.
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