Everyone must create their own priorities and choose where to concentrate limited energies on any given day. Certainly, it’s the greatest waste of energy to stare at all the fallen balls and worry we dropped the wrong ones. Accept imperfection. Ask for help. Offer it. No one is an island. If we have a smaller or no safety net to catch us, then it’s all the more important to heed the advice piped over the loudspeakers every time we fly: Put the oxygen mask on yourself before assisting others. And breathe deeply.
