The truism at the heart of Buddhist thought is that "PAIN is not optional, SUFFERING is." Which is what I aspire to, these days... yes, there's a world filled with misery and suffering out there, but I feel decreasing need to make it mine, by proxy.

As it turned out, I changed it from "Suffering from Too Many Interests Syndrome" to "Challenged by Too Many Interests Syndrome," which is really a pretty marginal change but definitely more accurate, as a statement of where I find myself, in my life.

Of course, it is also just a figure of speech... and sometimes it's easy to get wrapped up in making things more serious than they really are.