A colleague of mine at Oxford University was one of the most positive and inspirational individuals I've ever met.
He
represented Oxford in the 1st XI cricket team, learned to speak fluent
Arabic by simply talking Arabic to every Arab he met (initially that
meant asking them to teach him a few words), and I recently found out he
came from a very disadvantaged background.
He gave me some advice over twenty years ago which has stuck with me to this day…
“Don’t
get annoyed about small things in life. People who get annoyed about
small things just make their entire lives miserable because they end up
annoyed with every little thing.”
Someone
being rude, a baby crying a few seats away on a flight, some Quoran
giving you abuse in the comments. I just don’t let small things annoy
me. And perhaps because of that the big things rarely do.
-Asim Qureshi,MA Physics, University of Oxford
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