Most of us could do a much better job of living effectively if we did not take life quite so seriously. Life, of course, is a serious business. It imposes many responsibilities on us. It presents many problems. There are, however sensible limits as to how we must look upon these important, and to what extent we must accept as personal obligations.
We also take life too seriously when we fail to distinguish between the things that are really important and those that are of little consequence. This applies both to our problems and difficulties, and to the things that we want for our well-being and happiness.
Most of our problems are not important ones. Many of them are of so little consequence in the totality of our lives that whether we find a solution for them or not is of little significance. To forget about them is usually the best course of action. So it is with many of the things that we want or that we think we need for our well-being and happiness. Actually having them or not having them, adds little to our life. In our sense of values, to place them in the same category as we do the indispensable needs of life, such as health, means of a livelihood, companionship, love, honor, and peace of mind is to be facetiously too serious in our attitude toward life.
In conclusion, when we give the same weight to what is of little importance as we do to what is indispensable, we take life too seriously. In doing this, we definitely waste energies that could be used to live more effectively and happily.
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