There are people somewhere wishing for a problem as manageable as one you currently resent.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Problems are graded against your own baseline, so a manageable difficulty can consume your attention as completely as a serious one. This is not a reason to dismiss what you are dealing with, and your frustration is real. It is a reason to keep some sense of scale available.

When resentment about a problem is running high, describe it plainly, without the emotional weather around it. Sometimes the description reveals something genuinely serious. Often it reveals a solvable inconvenience that has been given more room than it needs.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your current problems would have relieved an earlier you?

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