I was working with my dad once and we were doing some construction work for someone. The lady that we were working for asked us what we thought about how she should arrange a certain room (I don't remember if it was paint color with the trim and window casings or something else but it was just a preference) I would usually let my dad talk to the people we worked for, he being the boss and all. He gave her the kind of answer that is like "either could work" and I thought 'this way looks better.' After she left I told my dad, my opinion and he said he agreed with me and I asked him why he didn't tell her. He simply said "what I think doesn't matter." I thought about it for a minute and he was right. It wasn't our house we were building. We wouldn't be looking at the room each day. Our opinion didn't really matter.
The lesson is a good one, in my opinion. We all have the tendency to think that our way of thinking and our opinions are correct. That's part of what makes us individual. However if we want to find peace with ourselves and those around us, especially our loved ones we need to realize that sometimes what we think doesn't matter, and that's OK.
Life is learning to balance ideas, principals, beliefs, and actions. Learning when your opinion does and doesn't matter, when to bristle up and when to calm down. Learning when to laugh and when to be serious. Learning how be patient with yourself and those around you. Learning how to accept any result that may come from any situation, and using the results that come to make you a better person. That is life. Every experience can teach you something, if you let it. Every person can show you how to be a better person, if you let them. Finding good everywhere, that is how you bring good out of others. Light cleaves unto light. Ask yourself what light is cleaving unto you?
Bridal your passions that you may be filled with love. Balance yourself, use your agency to control your attitude and you will learn to be at peace.
Come what may and love it.
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