Don't Sweat The Small Things
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Don't Sweat The Small Things

My problems really can't be that bad.

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Don't Sweat The Small Things
Elsa Chase

I know, I’m always on here, preaching about positivity. I try to live my life each day seeing the light in the world. I’m always trying to find the bright side of all situations. However, I’m not perfect. I’m not always happy, sunshine and rainbows, like I tend to give off based on my articles.

Last week, I bought my first car. I was really excited about it, but then someone had called the police one day saying that I hit another car while I was backing out of a parking space (and I hadn’t.) I let my anxiety get the best of me the next day, and I was sitting at work, nervous all day, and I couldn’t concentrate on what I was doing. And then, of all things, the day before one of the hottest days of summer, my air conditioning went out.

At the time, I kept thinking, “it couldn’t get any worse.”

Wow...was I stupid.

These tiny problems seemed like the end of the world to me. As it all worked out, the person whose car I supposedly hit never got ahold of my insurance, and my a/c was back on that night that it went out.

These are SUCH MINIMAL problems as compared to how bad it could actually be!

That morning, when I woke up, I forgot to remember my 10 things I was thankful for. Instead of waking up thankful, I woke up cursing over how little sleep I got, and over how badly I didn’t want to get out of bed.

That day, instead of just “letting go” and “letting God,” I let myself get upset and anxious over the smallest of problems.

At about 3 p.m., that same day, I was sitting in the office I work at. I started to think about just how lucky I am, and just how minuscule those problems are compared to all of the other things that could go wrong. I am one lucky woman.

I have friends that are living everyday with a terrible terminal disease, that have an even better attitude on life than I do some days!

There are people in this country that fear everyday because they do not know how they are going to feed their children before sending them to bed.

Once I put those things into perspective, I realized that life really isn’t that bad. Sure, life was uncomfortable at the moment, and I had to deal with a few minor inconveniences, but it’s not the end of the world.

Some words I heard on the TEC retreat I attended so many years ago, “Let go and let God,” are words that I know I need to remind myself of everyday. Life isn’t always going to go the way that you plan it to, and there’s no use in sweating the small things. I am a firm believer in the thought that God has a plan for all of us, and when things don’t go the way we want them to, it’s God nudging us in a different direction. I like to think of my mild inconveniences last week as him testing me, making sure that I still have my priorities set on what’s important, and what’s not.

I know life can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but that’s just all part of the experience, isn’t it?

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