Role models

If we feel tempted to complain about our lives it's because we aren't paying sufficient attention to the challenges of others. Many of them have much bigger hills to climb and yet suffer with a dignity and grace that serve as models for the rest of us. 

It is people like that who provide me with perspective. 

When we are untethered from stress we can fall victim to navel gazing which I am also not immune to. 

I think of those people and snap out of it immediately.