Some of us are easily upset, whether it’s a remark, an unexpected event or even a look.
Our equilibrium is disturbed and our peace destroyed. Like salt in our tea, small events can ruin everything.
Of course, if you put spoonful of salt in a cup of water, it has a horrid power. It may well make you sick.
If you put a spoonful of salt in a jug of water, however, there’s less impact. The salt will be noticed, but not to the same degree, because there’s simply more water to absorb it.
In the jug, the salt will be struggling to gain your attention.
But here’s a thing: if you put a spoonful of salt in a lake, it won’t be noticed at all! Really not. The lake is too large a mass of water for it to have any effect, with the salt being exposed as a spoonful of not very much.
However you look after your wellbeing, when upset arrives, remember the enormous lake; breathe in its depth and capacity, it’s glorious size.
It’s a bigger, truer and happier place than the cup.
