Not get irritated by people so much

The conclusion I’ve come to is that people are always going to be irritating. I do my best to be compassionate and not let myself dwell on rudeness and stupidity, because everyone has their own struggles, and who am I to judge? I have bad days where I’m not as kind or wise as I could be, and other people are allowed days like that as well, as long as it doesn’t cause me or others any lasting harm.

But sometimes, I’m just cranky. There’s no getting around that, and I can accept it. I do my best to not take my moods out on other people, and my best is the most I can expect from myself. I think that I’m going to call this goal done.

This is really hard, and I haven’t really made much progress. But then, I haven’t really been trying, either. It’s much easier to be annoyed inwardly and to complain to my confidantes later, than to accept that people are acting the best way they know how. I should make more of an effort to be less annoyed by little things – and by big things, too. I can’t change other people, and I’m sure I’d be much happier if I could just accept that the world isn’t always going to work the way I would like.

I’m just not really sure how to do this.