I heard a story once about a puritan who became angry at another man. Being a pacifist, he couldn’t carry out the actions he so desired to do. In order to justify his vengeance, he told the man, “Sir, thou art my brother and I would never think to do thee any harm. Except that thou art standing where I am about to shoot.”
We all have moments where people get the best of us. It seems as though they take pleasure in hindering us or in getting our tempers flaring. We lie in bed thinking about what they did. We tell our friends about the jerk we encountered recently. They can become a major impediment to our joy.
The reality is that the frustration is not worth our time or energy. Greater injustices occur every day around the world. We will not be able to right every wrong that happens to us. So what do we do?
I read a book once called, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff (and it’s all small stuff). Most of what happens to us that makes us angry are minor frustrations.
A quote I read yesterday, “Difficult people are like rocks in a stream. The best way to handle them is to flow around them and move on down the river.”
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