Advice

Great advice is sometimes unwanted. Even if you know its true, hearing it, is completely different.

Sometimes, the best advice is given by someone who has no relation to your situation. Who walks in by surprise and offers a snippit of life that they lived. Be they older or younger, the advice they offer is general in nature. They know nothing of your situations outside of the context they know you in. But the advice they give has more meaning than anything. It snaps you back into yourself like a rubber band.

Today I recieved said advice from someone who I've never met before today. I will probably never run into this person again. I have no idea of his life. I know that he offered me advice based solely on a conversation of food, ymca, politics and lifesavers in coffee.  We never delved into my life, my hardships. He knew none of it and yet was able to offer this breif, yet none the less meaningful, advice to follow. He had years of expirience on me. Years.

So I will take this to heart. Or at least try.

"If it doesnt matter in a year, dont let it bother you today"

My anxiety is related to worry. I worry. I worry about money, my job, my parenting skills, my choices, my divorce, my kids, my dogs, my haircut, my diet, my exercise, my moving, my extended family. So this applies. In a year, it wont matter whether I chose salad or a burger for lunch. It wont matter whether I chop off 6 inches of hair. It wont matter what I feel about my mom. In a year, she will still be my mother.

So I continue on.