“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse our irritation so long as we don’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.” - Seneca, Letter to Lucilius CXXIII
How often do we let things irritate us so much that the act of getting irritated is making the thing that’s irritating us bigger than it really is?
Perhaps more often than we should.
And if that’s true, make a list of all the things that truly irritated you in the last week. How many of those things could have been taken lightly? And if it doesn’t kill or harm your person, you likely can take it lightly.