The thing is this...what seems big to you might be inconsequential to me. And what's making ME crazy makes you think I AM crazy. Why worry? Why be concerned? Questions we all have for one another from time to time. Life isn't easy.
I know people who think life is bad if they don't get their weekly manicures, and the housekeeper arrives a few minutes late. I think they're crazy. I can't afford weekly manicures; and a housekeeper? Isn't that why you have kids? To help keep the house tidy after they mess it up? And few people I know can afford a housekeeper anyhow. So to me, that's the kind of thing that's not important.
Other people struggle to find the money to buy food, have shelter and clothe themselves and those they care for. Some might suggest they go find a job but if they do, they still won't earn enough to pay the bills but they'll lose whatever benefits they currently have. It's terrible to think you can work full time and still not be able to pay for the barest of essentials. What about the 33 year old man, who has no health benefits and is two years into his own struggling business and ends up in the hospital with congestive heart failure and his heart operating at 10%? And no one will help him because he has no money and the hospital sends him home with out the pacemaker he needs to live...talk about a challenge.
Then there's the people in-between. They have enough to pay the bills but not enough to do much else. I think many of the people I know fall in this group. They have food on the table but they don't go many places, or take vacations or have a housekeeper. They're the kind of people who take in stray animals and love them like they're worth a million dollars and they're the kind of people who help in soup kitchens, collect clothing for the homeless (even if they can't contribute much financially) and they're the kind of people who welcome strangers into their homes.
Look around you. Look past the trappings we all fall into. Just because someone has a nice car or wears something new doesn't mean that it doesn't come at a price. There are challenges out there that we all face and things happen that others never know about.
And judge not, lest you be judged. Maybe that person with the nice car just lost her job, or maybe the man with the lovely suit just lost his mother.
Smile at everyone. Offer a kind word. You just don't know when you might be the one to help someone else get past a challenge.
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