Thoughtscape

 I bet all of us can talk about our problems for hours. Something that happened five years ago can still bother us. Imagine wearing your favorite outfit and dropping some ketchup on it. Here's what's going to happen. People will stare, they might make fun of you for a split second but they are not going to care after a point. You, on the other hand, will be upset about it all along. You will focus so much on the part that is stained that all you will be able to think about in that moment will be how to possibly wash it off.  Life is the same. The more you focus on your problems, the more it consumes you. I had to learn it the hard way. We draw this line of comparison between our life and others. Our eyes often see how perfect everyone else's life is; how this one girl went on a late night drive with her folks and how your neighbor played board games with his family during the weekend. Such things keep reminding us of how we cannot have anything close to the perfect, happy l...