Oh Wise One

Here's a secret not many of you would know. Big Michelle once said something to me that resonated so much with me that whenever I find myself in a situation where I'm feeling this certain way (which I will expand on in a second) I remember her words and try to live by this creed.

It started in year 12 when I started obsessing over my smudgy, fingerprinted spine of my economics book. You know when you open a book and you get your dirty thumbs on the spine (not the spine bit that holds the book together but the other side where all the pages come together) and it can become dirty? I hate that with a passion. I obsessed and obsessed, trying to erase the marks but they wouldn't go away. I would purposely put the book in lighting just so I could stare at the marks all through economics classes, silently cursing them. I'm sure I looked like a freak, I complained and complained.

One day, Big Michelle got so fed up with me. She said to me half annoyed yet half wise and compassionate, "J, there are bigger things in life to worry about."

I mean, those words were so true and so wise. I just listened to them and they stayed in my brain. And it's so true. Things like fingerprints and worn out keys in my keyboard and non-straight writing. All that shit is pointless stuff I won't remember in two days. It's silly stuff, non-sensical and not worth my time. I will always be grateful to Big Michelle for telling me this.

J