Ryan Holiday

It is annoying to be sure, but it is a small price to pay to help them discover their own interests.

It's a small price to pay for peace in the car instead of whining and complaining and gratuitous insults about our taste.

And someday, almost certainly, one of these songs will come on and we will be hit with a wave of nostalgia, missing that 12-year-old who liked to belt out Taylor Swift,

desperately willing to trade anything for one more road trip listening to the Pokemon theme on repeat.

So we might as well enjoy it while it's here and not be embarrassed about it for even one second.

What are we fighting about, really?

There's a great lyric in the bridge of the new Bruce Springsteen song, Tucson Chain.

We fought hard over nothing, he sings.

We fought till nothing remained, and I carried that nothing for a long time.

Doesn't that just perfectly capture, in such a sad and telling way, many of our relationships and grudges?

We turn nothing into something and then hold on to it like it's everything.

Then we wonder why we're unhappy.

We wonder why we're lonely.

We wonder where people we used to love have gone.

We wonder where the good times went.

The answer, we drove them away.

We ground them into dust.

Marcus Aurelius struggled with this too.

Had a problem like we all do with anger and taking offense and getting into arguments and needing to prove people wrong.

If he hadn't, he never would have written this little reminder in meditations.