Sunday Story…Annoyances

In the movie, “Dumb and Dumber” there is a scene where Jim Carrey demonstrated the most annoying noise in the world. And, as you might expect, it is pretty annoying. But, to be honest, why? Why do I want to be annoyed? Is there a measure to be more annoyed or is there a limit to how annoyed one can get?

I mean we go to the gym to get more fit, we eat right to be healthier, and we go to yoga to find some calm…so do we get to work on our annoy-ability? I think not. None of us want to be annoyed or more annoyed. Being annoyed is a symptom, a side effect of something else. A mosquito in my bedroom is an annoyance, a side effect of allowing a pest into my space. The solution is simple…chase the pest out.

There is no mileage in being annoyed. You don’t get to go to the world championships of annoyance. We don’t hold up the most annoyed people as heroes and we certainly don’t laud the annoying. If anything we do everything we can to eliminate annoyances and annoying people.

The lesson in the annoyance is in solving the problem not wallowing about in the annoying pool. Solve the problem. Being annoyed is a waste of time and energy.

John Mariotti
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