Dear LPG,

Isn’t it funny how history and geography have as little respect for the gravity of most life-stressing situations as the perspective observed by the different people who are watching such a situation unfold?

When we look at the crises that were looming in our minds, even yesterday, it takes just one little thing in your life to allow that worry to pale into insignificance when some other event or incident takes its place.

I am not saying that all situations are trivial, but as I have become older I have found that little bothers me as much as it used to even though I think that I have much more time in the day to think.   I bet each reader can think of a friend or someone they know who has told them about something ‘catastrophic’ that has happened in their life, which is really taking up lots of their thinking time and replacing it with worry; the medication that we can’t get till next Tuesday, or the argument we had with a friend that each of us are too proud to be the first to say sorry to, or the  fact that the washing machine is going to have to be replaced. 

It is funny how we are always better at giving our friends and the people in our lives advice, be it good or bad about how to overcome their problems and how yesterday’s crisis can so easily be overshadowed by what happened this morning, but perhaps we need to step back from our own issues sometimes and confide in someone who will be able to see them more objectively.  The value of sharing our problems should never be forgotten either.  Sometimes it is good to share your thoughts on someone else’s problem and vice versa.  Your friend’s problem is not likely to weigh so heavily on your mind resulting more in objective advice which you can take or leave.

So I have concluded that we should all treat our problems with the same positivity that Anna Sewell’s Pollyanna adopts in the book of the same name, and learn her glad game.  

OH, Honor Oak Park

OH has left a video clip which demonstrates how this ‘Glad Game’ is played…

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