One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between inconvenience and a problem. 

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, or if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem.

Everything else is an inconvenience.

Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy.

A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast… Are not the same kind of lump.

One needs to learn the difference. 

-Robert Phulgum-