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Have you ever been in a situation where a lot of things are not going your way and there’s is nothing you can do about it? Well, I have been through those things a lot lately. The best thing to do so far is: Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Having a lot of concerns and some other urgent and more important things to think about makes you decide to do so. Sometimes, all you want to do after a stressful day of public commuting, walking a lot, going to different high-rise buildings and public commuting once again is get home quick, play your favorite music, have a hearty dinner and have a good night sleep. Because tomorrow, everything is back to what it was the day before.

When you are in that situation, I think you will really learn to let go of arguments with taxi drivers, over-priced products, required monetary tips, nosy landladies, and many other stuff you’d typically call a day-to-day irritation. Of course, this does not include life-threatening situations and highly inexcusable offenses.

Living this new life pushes you to filter out things to react about and things to let go. Life is so beautiful to be marred simply by people who may or may not irritate you intentionally. I realized that the more you react to things that do not deserve a reaction, the more you waste your energy on things not relevant to you. The laws of physics state that every action requires a certain amount of energy which is changed from one form to another in the process. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. If I translate this, it would be that a certain action caused a person outside of you to spend some amount of energy which, intentionally or not, irritated you. When you let it irritate you, you tend to spend more energy to compensate for the insult.

I guess a good practice is to create a certain limit as to which a certain irritant can affect you - a buffer layer around you if I may call it. This buffer layer allows you to absorb the tolerable and the intolerable. The definition of such would then depends from person to person.

Well, so much for that analogy which seemed to have just complicated my point. The bottom of it is this: not sweating the small stuff may actually be the best thing to do when facing a lot of stress. It creates a preprogrammed list of things to spend and not to spend your energy on. It saves one time and energy which you might as well spend in doing things that you like - sports or hobby, whatever pleases you. I think this can really do a great part if you want to have a good stress management system. Pretty fun! Take the challenge.