I have spent so many hours of the past several weeks worrying, analyzing, stressing, nit-picking, interpreting and regretting that, I just realized, I have made it all worse than it had to be.
Today, in one of those end-of-year articles on resolutions–specifically the author’s resolution to stress less–I read this line (or something pretty similar):
Will it matter a year from now?
In applying that question to all these things that have been bothering me so much lately, I found that I answered yes in only a handful of cases.
Hm, now there’s that perspective-gaining I’ve been looking for.
