when you you were a kid your parents always told you not to sweat the small stuff. don't let the little things in life get you down. how many of us can say that we honestly don't? i know i can't.
i was at work tonight talking to one of the other delivery drivers, whose name is john. john is a crabby old man who worked in a factory for twenty years, and after getting laid off, came to work at pizza hut. to put it lightly, john is a pessimist. he hates everything, never sees the bright side of anything, and more importantly, lets every little last thing get to him. tonight he was doing his share of complaining when we got into this conversation about the politics of pizza delivery. he spent around forty five minutes standing in the back talking about what order you should drop off pizzas in, and all sorts of other dumb things that drivers get all uppity about. after having said conversation, i got in my car and headed on my next run. it was not up until this point that i realized how trivial everything that i had spent the last forty five minutes worrying about was. how in the grand scheme of things did it really matter which pizza i dropped off first, or which ones i took at all for that matter.
sometimes i think we all get so caught up in the stupid things that litter our day that we forget about the grand scheme. we forget that buried underneath all the bullshit, are real issues. we tend to ignore what really matters for the things that are placed right in front of us on a constand basis.
it's time to listen to that dumb shit that our parents told us growing up. we never wanted to believe it, but looking back, how right all of that advice is turning out to be.
don't sweat the small stuff people. life is bigger than which of the two deliveries in your car gets dropped off first. at least i hope it is.
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