Here and doing ok after a bit of rough couple of days.

My swimming teacher said something that irritated me on Tuesday evening. I felt like I was being put down. I tried to work with the feeling, but it just wasn't letting up. Yesterday I was stressed all day, because I knew I was going to have swimming class again in the evening. I even talked it over with two of my more sympathetic coworkers. Nothing helped. I was wondering why I was getting so caught up with something which was very small in the greater scheme of things.

Then last night my son talked to me about something a coworker said to him at work yesterday which mildly upset him. Because I'd been struggling with something similar for the last two days, I think I was able to be more empathetic in my response.

Sometimes I wonder if we have negative experiences just so we can be more understanding of other people's struggles.