The Pink Shoe Diaries

i am a big fan of adages. you know like "waste not, want not", "a watched pot never boils" and so on and so forth.

usually when someone says one, i am like "that is so wise".

and then of course i turn around and keep on wasting or watching pots expecting them to boil and so on and so forth.

there is one adage in particular though, that i wish i could stick to because i really believe it is valuable advice.

"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff".

i believe in not making mountains out of molehills, and saving the stress in your life for big, catastrophic changes and not small, everyday mundane problems. and when i say i believe in it, i mean "in theory".

because i sweat hardcore the minute, insignificant stuff.

for instance, today i was in a pretty good mood, for a foggy Monday. i arrived to work only to find that my letter opener had gone missing. i searched my desk, and the surrounding area to no avail.

and to make it even more annoying. someone stole my letter opener last week and i had to order a new one and it had just arrived on Friday. i never even got to use it!

so a black cloud descends because of a letter opener.

and as i become more self-aware in my old age, i notice that i tend to react emotionally to things that in the wide scheme of things are not a big deal. and even as i type that phrase "in the wide scheme of things" i dislike it, because it doesn't make a person any more upset about something just because to someone else it is not a big deal.

and it's not like i am a negative person because really i am super annoying happy most of the time. i just make big deals out of nothing, am pissed about it or a few minutes, and then forget all about it.

and it gets me thinking.

usually when there is something to really stress about, i don't. i handle it and move on.
it's like all my stress mechanisms are worn out from being pissed about letter openers and people running late and the line being long at TJ Maxx, that in a real situation i am cool and level-headed.

and i see people all the time who never get upset about anything, and these same people will blow up when you least expect it....so maybe it's okay to get a little upset about little things if it means when the big stuff happens you can handle it a little bit better.

you know what i mean?

so for now i will continue to sweat the small stuff, especially when it involves office theivery because that is just plain annoying.