9.26.25: Small Stuff Matters

When people say, “Don’t sweat the small stuff,” I think they’ve never dealt with an ant infestation. Ants are the small stuff, and they will absolutely wreck your sanity. I once spent a whole afternoon defending my kitchen counter like it was Helm’s Deep. Toothpaste barriers. Vinegar floods. Strategic tissue strikes. Still, the ants won. That’s when I realized the advice is backward. Maybe you should sweat the small stuff, because the small stuff is relentless. Wars, pandemics, recessions? Sure, terrifying. But ants? They’ll outlive us all. One day, they’ll inherit the earth, carrying crumbs of our old civilizations.