You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Everything is but what we think it.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.