I think its time to pull one of the header quotes from Will for this post. “Do the best you can and don’t take life too serious.” I discovered this quote several years ago and practicing it has helped me cope with daily life. I don’t think I am unusual in taking my personal life too seriously.  If we were to concentrate on what our FaceBook friends say, we can become convinced that we are the only ones struggling. But once we realize that the FB media is a facade and doesn’t reflect any deeper meaning, we can dispell that make-believe “Ozzie and Harriet” view of the world.

There are a couple of adjuncts to this saying, one of them is that your life, for the most part, has little to do with any world situations. Except for voting and sometimes voicing your opinion to those that can affect change, what you do in your life doesn’t matter to anyone but you and your immediate family. So, just don’t get too serious about what goes on in the world.

Do the best you can where you can affect change and make your life better but don’t get too serious that world tensions are something you can personally do much about. The other adjunct is that you only live once in this world, the time you are living now is not a practice session. If you don’t make the most of it now you have lost any opportunity to do so later.