More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
To try to be better is to be better.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.