Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.