The best advice I was ever given...

LET IT ROLL OFF YOUR BACK! Think about the times that you have let something little fester in your mind and ruined your day or made you do something you regret. That probably took ten years off your life. You probably still think about it today. Wouldn't it have been so much easier to focus on the more important things of that day and that irrelevant issue would have just dissolved? Granted, there are things that are tempting to hold in grudge, but if they are trivial enough it does much more good to leave them be. This advice came from my mother (probably passed on from her mother) and I hold it in high ranks of my philosophies. We have all been in situations where someone made a comment--maybe about your outfit or the way your voice sounds--that we could have just unleashed our frustration on, but think about it...was our poor choice of outfit that day still affecting your life now? Probably not! Things like that need not be held in contempt and it definitely makes you the bigger person if you realize that and act accordingly.