What's bugging you?

I consider myself to be a very easy going guy, so I'm often surprised to see how small things appear to really bug others. A messy house, a nasty comment someone said, a promise broken or poor service, can really set some people off their day.

With some folks really minor things can put them into a foul mood. Logically, this makes no sense. Most stress (I think) is self-enduced. It's all in how you interpret an event. If you're thinking thoughts like....it just rips me apart when so and so said that nasty thing....then it's bound to be terribly upsetting. As opposed to saying to yourself, something like.....that certainly wasn't very nice, she must have some sort of problem to be talking like that.

So today, I'm thinking what would be a good test to determine if something was worth getting upset about? And the Truthteller answer is......

Will it matter a year from now?

I'm not suggesting that you just ignore every hurtful thing said, every promise broken, however it might be valuable to decide how upset you are going to let yourself become, or how long you going to hold onto your self-induced pain. People should to told when they've done you wrong but then 'let it go'.

As the book said...."don't sweat the small stuff, because it's all small stuff"

Now here is ironic part of what I just wrote! I'm thinking who is going to read this post? I have this image in my head, it is one that I've formed from the comments that I get as well as many emails. My impression is that if you are a regular visitor to this site then you are most likely to be above average intelligence, have a sense of humor and share a lot of the same values as I do. So most of what I've written here will hardly apply to you.....I must be writing about that annoying relative or co-worker of yours!

Eduardo

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon