You know how your parents always say "In ten year time, will it really matter?" And of course, to you at this time, it TOTALLY will matter in ten years.
But I've really started to learn that it doesn't. The things that happen to us, good and bad, are the things that shape us into who we have become today, also for good and for bad.
I've been sick this weekend so today, when I got home from rehearsal, I did nothing but lounge in my bed, eat soup and oatmeal and homemade applesauce chocolate chip cookies, drink tea, watch the Mentalist and read Facebook. I just kept clicking "Older Posts" and because I'm recovering from illness (and a case of the over-dramatics) and I can, I got all the way down to over a year and a half ago.
The point of this isn't that I have way too much time on my hands- this is just a minor corollary. The point that I am trying to make is that most of the status posts that I had where I was stressing over something or angry about a decision made, don't mean anything to me anymore. Some of them I didn't even know at the point what was stressing me out or what I was upset about. A year and a half is not that long ago and clearly I am a perfectly normal, functioning human being. At the time, was I upset over these things? Was I annoyed at circumstances? Yes, absolutely. Were these feelings justified? Again, absolutely. Did they have the long-lasting negative effect that I assumed they would? Absolutely not.
It's always a good reminder to see the things that happen in our lives as just another chapter, just another experience, just another bruise that will fade away or just another memory to tuck away for another time.
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