Meditations 2,1 shows when things aren’t quite going the way that you’d hoped, it can be really difficult to meet the challenges of your day with a calm smile. For some this can be even more difficult if they know they are facing a difficult day ahead where we may have to interact with negative talk, attitudes and ideas.

But mornings do not have to fill the individual with dread. Remember you are an individual as part of a greater whole. Each person has their own problems and issues. And it does not affect us as long as we remember our faculty of choice and reasoning gives us freedom.

It may just mean a change of mindset.