From the mind of critic: “If we have little pet peeves in life, do we allow them to get to us, and make us fly off the handle? Does something completely preventable, keep happening over and over and over and over again with us mentioning it every time, but nothing seems to change? Do we let this thing affect us, changing our personality from genuinely nice person into raving lunatic? Or do we take in this information that has flowed to us a million times before, but realize that the only thing that’s guaranteed to change is our reactions? Many things out in the world can piss us off something fierce, whether it be politics, religion, the media, something our lover did, or something our coworker did. These forces attempt on a 24-7 365 basis to throw us off track, sterering us away from the light and into the darkness. These dark forces will only get stronger the closer we get to the light, which means we have to be ready. We must allow pet peeves and darkness in for them to affect us, but it’s the exact same concept with the light. We just have to ask ourselves, what will bring us more inner joy and fulfillment?” 🙂