80% of
what we suffer is self-inflicted. If we make a list of what goes wrong in our
lives, the list becomes endless.
It’s too
cold (or mild, or rainy, or windy) for the season.
A
saucepan is so encrusted with burnt food that it has to be soaked, then
scrubbed by hand instead of being simply shoved in the dishwasher.
We look
for something small at the bottom of a big bag ; we know it’s there but we
can’t find it. In the end, we have to tip the whole content of the bag out onto
a table, and sure enough, what we were looking for is right there, staring us
in the face.
Our
next-door neighbour is setting up a water tank. He goes to the DIY store three
or four times in the course of a morning, his trailer clanging noisily behind
his car.
The
computer is attacked by a virus.
It could go
on and on. In the evening, exhausted, we find that one of our
favourite television programmes has been replaced by football or athletics.
That’s the last straw. We go to bed with a headache, then we can’t even fall
asleep. We are profoundly unhappy.
Tell that
to a paraplegic, a man with an incontinence bag or a woman dying of bone cancer
!
Things do indeed go wrong all the time. Let's not see it as a series of attacks on ourselves. We are not the centre of the universe.
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