Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how you take it. --Edmund Vance Cooke
Once, a woman decided to throw a problem-exchange party. As guests arrived, they shed all their personal problems and tossed them onto a pile with everyone else's. After all had discussed their own problem for others to hear, the party ended with guests selecting from the problem pile those they wished to carry away. Each person left with the same troubles he or she had brought to the party.
We who worry a great deal about our problems are always sure no one else has troubles as bad as ours. Too often, we complain, "If you had my problems, you'd really hurt." Our problems are tailored to us, and geared to help us learn by solving them. No one else's would be quite right.
When we cope with problems, rather than wailing about them, we discover that our own are minor irritations compared to those we see in others.
Perspective...Perspective...Perspective... that's what I keep reminding myself. And then Maturity. Am I looking at things from a mature viewpoint or (A Spoiled Rotten Kid's View).
Anyway...most of the time, when I listen to others whales of tales....I believe I will take my own troubles.
Joan Rivers had a joke... "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya" But in her sarcastic humor, she meant I'll take my problems anyday (she and her daughter had just lost her husband to suicide). She must have felt they were given what they could handle and get through.
