simple

"Life is basically pretty simple. You get up in the morning, you do the things you have to do and if you have time you do some things you want to do. You try not to hurt people and you help them if you can. Then you go to bed." Dean Sluyter, the zen commandments.

I like this.

All laid out for us, crisp clean and lean.

Pretty close to what I do.

Except it is a little late in the morning when I get up and I don't manage to do what I have to much less what I want to.

I really try not to hurt people, I say please because I try to play nice, I hold back the desire to tell people stuff in conversation, I don't use the really obscure words I know because people are already put off by the ones I do use, I don't call people names, I stand and listen.

Nevertheless I run into people all of the time who are acting hurt in some way by life.

Expectations can be blamed. People are upset because their expectations are not met.

Not that people expect a whole lot, they just expect everything in some particular order that they have imagined.

Let the world do something different and they rail against it.

Set your own expectations in general, not particular, terms.