people tell me that life is too short to waste on worrying about minor details and petty disputes. they tell me that i should be focusing on the bigger picture.

there's just one problem: the big stuff, by and large, is the stuff i can't do anything about. so there isn't much point in fighting hard against it. i either accept it or i let it drive me crazy.

the small stuff: now that's much more likely to respond to my efforts to manipulate it. if i let it get me exasperated, i at least get the potential pleasure of sorting it out.