I had my first day off on Thursday, and had the pleasure of driving some of the new Israeli staff back to Rochester. My mind was racing with chores to be done and errands to be run. All the while sulking about my newly attained speeding ticket. I was feeling bogged down as if I couldn't separate myself from unhappy thoughts. Then the conversation turned to current events.
The Israelis spoke about their frequent phone calls back home to make sure their parents were alive. With heavy hearts they told me about friends of theirs that were taken from them too soon because of war. They spoke of the paranoia that keeps Israeli citizens in their homes, afraid to carry on with their normal lives.
I quickly was reminded of my problem pile quote and actually began to feel angry at myself for believing even for a second that I had any problems at all.
The moral here is not to say that all the problems you think you have don't exist, for that would be ignorant. Rather just to always keep in mind the perspective differences between people, and that almost always, someone is fighting a battle that you will never know. That being said, I'll still leave you with some John Mayer. "Take all your so-called problems and put em in quotations."
Tristan Levant
C-3 Bunk Counselor
