Take a chill pill

I don't think of myself as a particularly rational person. As evidenced in earlier blog posts. Recent ones. I can be crazy and emotional and irrational sometimes.

But there are people in my life on a daily basis who make me feel like the most normal, level-headed, and practical person in the world.

These are the people for whom everything is a crisis. Car trouble, taxes, weather, work stuff . . . and we won't even talk about interactions with the opposite sex. Everything is dramatic, nothing is small, there is no perspective.

And sometimes I can't handle the drama. Sometimes I find myself jumping in, to correct or downplay, to try to give some kind of perspective. And it's not appreciated, and I really just need to bite my tongue and chill. Because the hysteria isn't my business, and it's not usually affecting me.

But it's so hard to help it. Good lord, maybe you should just calm down.