Focus on Your Own Work
Do you ever want to talk about how you wish people would stop caring about stuff they can't fix, that is way outside their scope? Well I do.
But I tend not to because it sounds bad when I say it and even worse in written form. I mean, I can't be telling people to stop caring about stuff that doesn't impact them one iota and to focus on their broken, broke, broke down lives without sounding harsh or even worse, uninformed. What kind of person would I be if I reminded them that they have real problems affecting their lives right now and being all in a huff about someone else's problems isn't their best use of resources? I could be called names if I did something like that.
I could be told by some smarty pants person, that I'm doing the same exact thing with this blog post. Well, no, this isn't the same. I'm not in a huff about your problems or you ignoring your problems, I'm not outraged, shaking, triggered or anything like that. I'm really only mentioning it because I'm trying to be nice and tell you to focus on another area that you will be successful at instead of wasting your time on something that you will fail at resolving, but I can guess you aren't going to see it that way.
Much like this blog post. It really isn't directed at any of my friends, but more at those friends y'all tell me about. Those that you try to figure out and solve. Those that love being about something big while never being about something small, like their own lives. Those that irritate you, annoy you, perplex you with their misplaced sense of activism while having misplaced priorities in their own lives. Those you want to tell to go campaign for themselves inside their own homes. Go fix what's broken about you before you come out here telling everyone how to solve their problems.
Well, since I can't make a blog post about that for you to share, I will have to just offer some encouragement and advice. Be okay with their opinions because they don't matter after all, and you just work on you and I'll work on me. Although we will have small lives, they will be big enough for us and we will all be happy together.
