Not so bad

this week has been strange, I had some bad news at the beginning of it, news that devasted me. I was sad, forlorn and just plan in a bad mood. I didn't want to talk to people, I didn't want to see people, I was pissed at myself and at everyone else. Then I talk to my friend Julie, I tell her about my horrible week, I go on and on about how bad MY life is, and how hard MY life is and how much MY life sucks right now. She listens. She sympathizes. Then, she tells me something that is going on in her life, this is like 10 minutes into the conversation after I've gone on and on, she is so patient and just wait. This something that she tells me is a very serious something, and it puts my something in to perspective. My something is meaningless really, her something is reality. She put my something were it needs to be, away, my something isn't significant, my something isn't life altering, my something isn't devasting, it shouldn't make me sad, mad, or forlorn. I have many blessing and it took this simply conversation with my friend to realize that!