A bad hair day is a bad hair day. Don’t let it audition for the role of a bad life.

Small bad things expand the moment you let them stand for something larger. A minor annoyance becomes evidence, the evidence becomes a story about how everything goes for you, and nothing in the original event justified any of that. Scale is the whole issue here. Keeping a small thing small is a skill and it takes deliberate effort.

Name a small annoyance in one plain sentence and stop there. Refuse any sentence that starts with everything or always. The event is allowed to be exactly its own size.