You reminded me of my favorite thing, which I picked up from working for seven years with a very curmudgeonly, older, Orthodox Jewish bookkeeper. No matter what would go wrong, his response was "In 100 years, will it matter?"
I still use that as a way to keep things in perspective.......
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Date: 2004-02-26 10:24 pm (UTC)I still use that as a way to keep things in perspective.......