The art of letting go of things out of our control is never easy.
We all get frustrated and annoyed and sweat the small stuff, especially in relation to things that get in the way of our day-to-day business of living or when things don’t go to plan.
But a hassle-free life doesn’t exist.
Aggro goes with the territory of life and getting bogged down in daily frustrations is what we do best. We are experts at pressing the self-destruct button.
If we can just let things go sometimes it really would help to manage our stress and refocus our energy. If only we could just step back, stop ourselves from over-reacting and move on.
Some people can do this and there are a lot of them living in Denmark!
The Danes have a word for accepting and pressing the reset button and it is ‘pyt’, (it sounds like ‘pid‘).
Deciding not to waste unnecessary energy on thinking more about a certain situation or life event makes perfect sense if you can pull it off (or press the button).
With cancer, it’s a bit more complicated. Your priorities change and life gets confusing. Life also gets very messy and so the very thing you crave is control, any control!
Merely saying the word ‘pyt’ isn’t going to make you a master of the universe but it might just help you cultivate a healthier way of dealing with stress and master your universe.
Cancer itself can help put an awful lot in perspective – at least that’s what some people say. Although there is some truth in that, I’ve found that cancer also means it is very easy to lose perspective. I still get mightily frustrated at the small stuff, you know, all the niggly and trifling stuff that really shouldn’t matter but still does, at least to me.
So, I’m willing to give this a go and I’m going to try pressing the ‘pyt’ button because I want to save myself the grief when I start grumbling and griping about something that is winding me up.
Will it work?
For something that isn’t a big deal, I’m hopeful it will but I don’t think a three-letter word is really going to help with the life-threatening or life-altering reality of having cancer.
I’m all for stepping back from cancer in order to refocus but pyt isn’t a miracle word that is going to save my life. However, if it can help me stay calm and handle frustrating situations, mistakes and bumps in the road in a rational manner then this lifestyle concept deserves a shot at the title.
I might just have to find my own word though and rely on that instead. I know some use a four-letter one but I’m too polite for that!