If you could not tell, I’ve been sweating it lately. Maybe not more that I ever have but certainly more than I should. There is a limit to how much worry is actually helpful in a given situation, and I have definitely surpassed that mark both now and in the past.
So what to do about the situation? I have also known for a long time that gratitude is a good way out of my head, but it doesn’t always seem accessible. Until I start to think about people whose situation probably sucks worse than mine. In reality, that probably includes like 85 percent of the world, but it helps me to stick closer to my quartile.
And at first I think how glad I am that my life does not suck as bad as some other person’s. That’s fine and it gets me through. Then I start to think about what that person might have to do to get by. That’s the point at which things start to kind of improve. Then I think of something maybe I could do for them, which is good stuff. If I would actually do it, imagine how great I would feel.