No Space for Pettiness

There are times in my life when I really get fed up with the pettiness of my surroundings.  It’s absolutely frustrating when you try to be mature, be the better person yet still the stupidity around you does not stop. It progresses and pokes like an annoying fly that just won’t leave you alone.  I consider myself a very patient person, a person with a long long string of tolerance.  But there are times that my patience is running thin and I feel exhausted I am tempted to take the easy way out and bitch about it.  And it’s just sooooo easy to be mean.  It’s so easy and very tempting to stoop to that level and be as petty.    

It’s at these times I pray for God to lead me to the Christian path in dealing with this pettiness.  It is also the same time when I stop and count what I value most in life and the feelings of narrow-mindedness go away.  I value what every human being values: faith in God, loving family, great friends, important work and true happiness.  My heart is warmed by the fact that I have a family who loves me.  I have great friends who cherish me and value my friendship.  I am respected in my field of work.  I have achieved most of what I have strived for. And I feel that somehow, in my own way, I touch people’s lives.  I think about all these and all my anger and frustration melt away.  In the end,    I chastise myself for letting the little, petty things bother me.  Indeed, life is too valuable to let insignificant things take even a small space my consciousness.

So in the end, I  am sad for the person who does not have what I cherish most. However, I pity  the person more who has these things but are so blinded by pettiness that he/she lose sight of what really matters most.

Indeed life is too short to let pettiness get in the way of true happiness.