Imagine you’re on a plane flying over a beautiful deciduous forest. Today, on December 5^th, it’s covered with sparkling white snow. You can see occasional evergreen trees too. They’ll soon be decorated for Christmas.

From the height of the bird’s flight you can’t notice that some of the branches are broken, there’re traces of a few campfires and some rubbish the people from the past left behind, some of the streams are cluttered with stones and fallen leaves.

Taking a closer look you realize that it’s just a matter of time and patience to collect the broken branches, cut down the dead trees, take the rubbish away and clean the streams.

Even though you’ve perfected your forest there’ll always appear new problems to work on. The wind will keep breaking the trees. The time itself won’t be merciful to some of them. The forest will fall asleep every autumn and rejuvenate itself every spring. It’ll never stay the same.

Maybe there’s no point in trying to take care of every cluttered spring or lightning-struck tree? Is there any sense in getting sad about every single trifle straining your forces to get rid of it?

Protect your forest from massive fires. Keep destructive people away. But do not get your energy scattered on little insignificant things.

Remember that your life is an exciting adventurous forest, not a boring perfectly trimmed park.