Daily Gratitude: How often do we get hung up on just one thing being to blame for something we don’t like. We zoom in and focus on just that circumstance.

What we forget is that there’s a whole slew of events that must intersect for that one circumstance to occur. Why not blame all the other factors?

When traffic is slow we tend to be upset with the cars that are around us – the ones we can see. But it’s most likely not their fault that everything has slowed down. It may be an event, person or broken down vehicle miles ahead. I think we don’t get mad at that because we can’t see it – you know “out of sight, out of mind”.

Instead of blaming anyone or anything, let’s just accept what’s happening and recognize that it’s simply that many factors have come together to create this “instance”. Nothing we can do will change that so why waste energy on the negative thoughts we’re harboring.