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Why I Don’t Miss My Drama Queen
This too shall pass is a succinct reminder
I recently came across an old letter from a friend dated in the mid-90s and sent to me when I was living in Hong Kong. Rereading this thirty years on, I was struck by my friend’s earnest endeavours to help and comfort me. She used the phrase this too shall pass twice.
I smiled as I struggled to remember the incident she referred to. Although it must’ve seemed so important to me that I wrote to my friend thousands of miles away — today I can’t remember it at all.
It served as a great reminder of a question worth asking before getting overexcited by situations or circumstances — will this matter in five years? 10 years? Or even tomorrow?
Maybe it’s a sign of my mature age, but these days I get bent out of shape by happenings around me much less than my younger days. I’m more easily able to sit with a problem, work it out — or just let it go if it’s not in my control.
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