These days , people are frustrated and upsetabout almost everything bemg five minutes late .having someone else show up five minutes latebeing stuck in traffic , waiting in line , overcookinga meal , making an honest mistake - you name itwe all become upset over itThe root cause for being upset is ourunwillingness to accept life as being different , inany way , from our expectations . Very simply , wewant things to be a certain way but they are not acertain way . Life is simply as it is . PerhapsBenjamin Franklin said it best , " Our limitedperspective , our hopes and fears become ourmeasure of life . and when circumstances do not fitour ideas , they become our difficulties . " Wespend our lives wanting things , people and eventsto be just as we want them to be and when theyare not , we fight and we sufferHow do we reduce this suffering ?