Always Strive to Be Like the Moon

Is a line from Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone. Upon asking his grandmother why an old man in the village often repeated this saying, Beah learned that people often complain that the sun is too hot. Conversely no one complains about the moon, even though there are times that the clouds try to cover it.

I am grateful that I remembered this saying today, while I was sitting in the doctors office. Our life isn't as bad as we think it is. Someone always has it worse.