Don't waste time with self-pity

"Life is not fair, so get used to it," Steve boomed. "If life is fair, we'll all be earning the same salary."

There may be times when we do most of the work and yet someone else gets the credit. We work twice as hard as the person next to us, and we know we're twice as smart, and yet we earn only half the money that he/she does.

But anytime I am tempted to whine and pity myself because I was certain that my troubles and problems are far more terrible than anyone else's misfortunes, I only have to turn on the TV or read the papers about the senseless attacks in Mumbai....and imagine how the families and loved ones of the deceased would feel.