Perspective

Sometimes it is so easy to get caught up in our own lives. All of our daily troubles and headaches and annoyances.

It is easy to get frustrated with a coworker that has a different viewpoint than you do.
It is easy to get annoyed with your significant other for putting everything on the top shelf of the fridge (because it's soooo difficult to put things back in the door).
It's easy to feel tired when the alarm goes off at 6am and wish for a few more hours or even a snow day so you didn't have to get up and go off to work.
It's easy to be irritated by the driver going 45 in a 55mph zone when you've got somewhere to be or the elderly checker at Wal-Mart that is way too slow to be working the speedy checkout line.
It's easy to wish that just once your 8 month old would sleep all the way through the night and not even need a pacifier.
It's easy to curse the Gods when you get that killer cold and your baby gets it and your husband gets it and all of you lose an entire night's sleep listening to each other cough.
It's easy to justify being crabby and grumpy because you're "stressed" and "tired" and "overworked" and "overextended."

It is so easy to do these things. And then you have a loved one with cancer and it puts it all into perspective for you.

Even moreso when that loved one is a two year old with no idea what is going on.

Thank you for the perspective Keagen, I will try to remember it next week when I keep getting calls from telemarketers and it's raining and Heidi wants her pacifier in the middle of the night not once, but twice. I will try to keep it all in perspective.