Elephantum ex mure facis.
(Anonymous)

pron = eh-leh-PAHN-toom eks MOO-reh FAH-kis.

You are making an elephant out of mouse.

Comment: Anonymous has for us who are walking around on a Monday some good advice. Don't make elephants out of the mice you encounter today.

It's that simple. We are all going to run into what is otherwise just "Monday stuff" and on Tuesday or better, next Friday, they will seem like little mice. Today, though, they can loom large, into what seems to be elephants.

Laugh. Be willing to laugh at yourself, and the elephant will shrink back into the mouse that it is.



Bob Patrick
(Used with permission)
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