Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things – things that we should forget at once. Perhaps someone we helped has proved ungrateful. Perhaps someone we believed to be a friend has spoken ill of us. Perhaps some reward we thought we deserved has been denied us. We feel such disappointments so strongly that we can no longer work well, or even sleep. But isn’t that an absurd attitude?
And why lose those placable hours brooding over grievances that in a year’s time will be forgotten by us – and everybody else? Why not devote our lives to worthwhile feelings and actions – great thoughts, real affections, lasting devotion for others.
Life is too short for pettiness.
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