Have you ever had a time in your life where you get overwhelmed by guilt? We have some friends that live in our building. We were gone all summer and when we got back - well life happens - and we've been very busy. They are older (like in their 70's & 80's) and we know that we should've gone and seen them already but well life happens. They don't have much going on and we do. So they are *M*A*D* at us! What do you do? I turned to the master LaoTze for some advice and here's what I found: As borrowed from this site (http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.html).

All the world says,
"I am important;
I am separate from all the world.
I am important because I am separate,
Were I the same, I could never be important."

Yet here are three treasures
That I cherish and commend to you:
The first is compassion,
By which one finds courage.
The second is restraint,
By which one finds strength.
And the third is unimportance,
By which one finds influence.

Those who are fearless, but without compassion,
Powerful, but without restraint,
Or influential, yet important,
Cannot endure.

So I need to remember I'm not as important as I think I am, I need to show these people some compassion and this will give me the courage to face them. I need to restrain from letting this bother me - so I have the strength to do all the things I need to do. Then we can all endure whatever may come.