Kids’ creativity is judged by their teacher. I hated drawing class when I was young because the teacher always said my work wasn’t beautiful. And I was graded accordingly.

I chose to study advertising because I wanted to be a creative. I thought it would be exciting to be behind all the cool ideas you see in ads.

I was scared off by the reality of the advertising industry. When I visited an agency, all I saw was stress. I thought if I do this job, it will be the death of me.

Meeting M.L. Chiratorn Chirapravati [leading Thai illustrator] lit a fire in me. It taught me that it was possible to earn a living as an illustrator. But I still didn’t believe that I was capable of achieving that dream.

No one’s stopping you from being what you want. People always complain to me that they want to be an illustrator but they studied the wrong thing, like engineering. That shouldn’t stop you. Just go for it!

Don’t reject your studies. No matter what it is, you can always learn something from it.

I’d had enough of the education system. I was fed up with doing homework and the whole grading system. So I promised myself that for my master’s degree, I would only study what I wanted.

The turning point was when I went to England to take a short advertising diploma course. I asked myself if that was what I really wanted to do, and I realized that I really wanted be an illustrator.

You’ve got to master the basics first. The university professors were highly critical of my watercolor techniques. Even if I took another year of classes, it wouldn’t have helped. I nearly dropped out altogether, but I didn’t want to lose the money I had already paid so I persevered.

Address your weaknesses. I tried all sorts of techniques to complete my illustration assignment. I started cutting up colored paper and arranging them piece by piece until I had finished my project, which was two books of fables. They were later printed as actual books and I’ve been lucky enough to keep getting jobs ever since. That’s more than 12 years ago now.

Being able to do what you love is the greatest thing ever. That’s what my dad told me when I asked him if he wanted my help with the family business. I’m thankful that my parents let me study what I wanted, even though they were completely clueless when I told them I wanted to be an illustrator.

People always confuse illustrators and cartoonists. Cartoonists are people who have a story to tell and draw that, but I’m just an illustrator who is happy to draw anything that people ask me to.

Every professional encounters problems. Many people see my profession as a happy one, sitting in Starbucks all day long drawing, but there are tough times when I have to redo my work over and over again.

Illustrating is a commercial art, so you will never completely express everything that you want to. You need to be creative but willing to compromise, too.

Joy can be found in the simplest things. I love paper. I love reading. I love drawing. There is not a single day in my life that I don’t touch a piece of paper.

I find it so beautiful when pieces of paper are cut up and spread out on a table. I take pictures of it to keep. I also love to glue it all together in a collage style. This led to my new art project, “Pa-Pang,” which is the most passionate thing I’ve worked on in ten years.

My other passion is eating. I love to eat delicious food. I’m also obsessed with collecting recipes. But the funny thing is I don’t know how to cook. I don’t even know how to use a gas stove!

Bad romance puts me in a dark mood. I cried for months when I broke up with my boyfriend. It seemed like there would be no end.

Outside troubles affect you only if you let them. One day when I was lying on the floor, I noticed that my heart was still beating and working like all the other parts of my body. It made me realize that I was still alive even though I was really sad. I stopped crying after that.

My job is amazing. I don’t need to wake up early. I’m just a normal girl who feels happy every time someone takes pleasure in my work and pays me for it. It also gives me the chance to make merit by drawing things for charity campaigns. It’s so cool!

I want to draw pictures to be displayed in hospitals. Illustrators obviously want people to look at their work. As staying in hospital can be boring, it would be a great feeling to cheer people up with my characters. 

I don’t drive. I just don’t want to deal with bad traffic or finding parking. Using the BTS is so much easier. Buses and taxis here are dangerous. But if these forms of public transport could be improved, Bangkok would be heaven. I seriously wish we had more big old trees, though.

The important thing in life is to realize that everything is uncertain. You’d better prepare for it.

How did you start singing at Stu-fe?
I love singing and have been a jazz singer off-and-on for years. I’ve been strolling around indie bars for a while now, since discovering my love of Thai music. Once I started coming here regularly, I simply asked them whether I could jam on stage with the band, and they said yes. Stu-fe is one of my favorite hangouts. I will be here every Wednesday night to perform with the band.

What type of music are you normally interested in?
My parents love classical music, so I was raised on that without knowing anything else. My music world expanded when I got to high school where my friends would share songs. Mostly it was pop songs and I didn’t like them. I found them too noisy and would walk out every time they started playing them. But one day, a friend played Modern Talking’s “You Can Win If You Want” and I fell in love. From then, I started listening to pop songs.

How did you find a love for Thai indie music?
It happened just five years ago. Tattoo Colour brought me back to Thai music. Before that I didn’t pay attention to it. I didn’t know who was big in the Thai music scene, I just listened superficially. But then I was blown away by Tattoo Colour’s “O-Gad Sut Thaai.” I’m not a teenager, but I still love it. It’s so catchy and fresh. Now I listen to a lot of Thai indie music and make sure to write down the names of all my favorite songs. I’m like an encyclopedia now. Finding good songs makes me feel blessed and happy. Pramote Vilepana is my favorite male singer. His voice makes me feel like I’m floating down a cool stream.

What’s your work situation now?
I’m a freelance French translator and teacher. I studied my master’s in France for five years before coming back to work at the Bureau of The Royal Household for eight years. I quit from there because I didn’t like the shifts. Now it’s like I’ve taken early retirement. I sing at private parties or any event for which people want to hire me. I’ve loved jazz since I was teenager and I sing mostly in French and English.

What’s your dream?
I dream of being a real singer one day, but that’s unlikely to happen. Maybe it’s down to my looks or the just fact that the music industry is hard to break into. I want people to open their minds and realize that people who love music aren’t necessarily good looking or young. Even at my age, people love music and love to sing. So, just give us a chance to show our talent.
 

Facebook

Bangkok is the world’s No.1 Facebook city with 8 million accounts in a population of 10 million people

Verdict: No doubt about it, Bangkok is the world’s No.1 Facebook city. According to some counts, there are actually more Facebook accounts in Bangkok than registered inhabitants, because of the large population here that is registered back in their hometowns. That means we’re also the city with the highest Facebook penetration.

18 million

Facebook users in Thailand, including 3.2 million new users in the last 6 months

Pai Texas (Texas Hold ‘Em Poker) is the top Thai Facebook page with 2.22 million likes

9pm-midnight

is the peak time for people using Facebook

Instagram

50 million

Instagram users worldwide

422,131

Instagram users in Thailand

Aum Patchrapa (@aum_patchrapa) is the leading Thai celebrity on Instagram with over 858,000 followers which lands her on the world’s top 100 celebrity ranks at 82—that’s higher than Jason Mraz!
Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak (@chermarn) was once the top Thai celebrity on Instagram but is now ranked at No.2 with 698,XXX followers while Araya “Chompoo” A. Hargate (@chomismaterialgirl) is No.3 with over 621,000 followers
RS’s Kamikaze record label (@kamikaze_music) is the top brand on Instagram.

Verdict: Bangkok is king when it comes to most commonly tagged Instagram locations, our nearest rival being the photo-sharing app’s birthplace, California. And with many calling 2012 the year of Instagram, it’s with some pride we’re going to declare Bangkok #1 Instagram city in the world.

Suvarnabhumi International Airport ranked No.1 and Siam Paragon No.2 in the most popular places where Instagram photos were taken in 2012, beating out Disneyland in the United States. Both also figured in the top 15 for 2011.

Twitter

Verdict: Thais don’t like to read much and Bangkok remains a small player in the global Twitter-sphere. We’re not even in the Top 20, in fact. Interestingly, we stole the Facebook crown from the current top Twitter town, Jakarta, so there’s hope yet.

Top Twitter Cities

1.) Jakarta
2.) Tokyo
3.) London
4.) Sao Paulo
5.) New York

900,000

Twitter accounts in Thailand

#weloveking

was the world’s No. 3 top topic on Coronation Day on May 5, 2012, as tributes to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej flooded in. The hashtag was No.1 on December 5, 2009.

Nichkhun Horvejkul

(@Khunnie0624) is the top Thai celebrity on Twitter with 1.54 million followers

Addicted to my Connection

117%

mobile penetration in Thailand

78 million

mobile subscribers in Thailand, out of a population of 69 million people

1,150%

year-on-year growth rate of LINE users in Thailand

Thailand is No.1 in the world for active Line users with a total 10 million users

Who spends the most time on social media?

1.) Argentina (9.8 hours)
2.) Brazil (9.7 hours)
3.) Russia (9.6 hours)
4.) Thailand (8.7 hours)

Countries that viewed PSY’s “Gangnam Style” on YouTube the Most

1.) USA
2.) Thailand
3.) South Korea

Verdict: Different regions use different social media networks, such as China’s Weibo and Renren or South Korea’s KakaoTalk, the messenger app of choice on 88% of the iPhones there. That makes comparisons across nations difficult. And there’s even less data on individual cities. But even if we’re not quite sure which city is Social Media Capital of the World, we’re confident Bangkok is in the top 5. And when’s the last time our city was in the top 5 for anything?

Sources: Zocialrank.com, Socialbaker.com, web.stagram.com, truehits.net, We Are Social Singapore, Thaitrend, YouTube
 

I was never a kid. I was very mature when I was young. I saw grown-ups as much cooler, so I liked to be friends with them more than with people my age.

For me, the 60s are when people were the most idealistic. The pop culture, the songs, the long hair and student movements all amazed me. There was a real break with tradition and sense of community.

I regret being born 10 years too late. I wanted to be born in the 50s and to grow up in the 60s. Instead, I grew up in the 70s but I was never into Saturday Night Fever or Grease.

My generation is really into Shaw Brothers Studio. The Guillotines is a throwback to that, to my childhood, to the nostalgic memories of people my age.

Nostalgia is a big thing for me. I don’t think that’s so special. Everyone is nostalgic. Woody Allen was very honest about his nostalgia. People are never really content with the present and always see the past as being better.

I’ve never liked the present, no matter what the present is. Even today, I like antiques and old cars. I like old sofas. I liked all this old stuff before people developed a fondness for it. Now it’s really hip.

My father was the biggest influence on me. He was a filmmaker who wasn’t a huge success, but I love him so much. He made me want to be a movie maker.

I ended up studying film in the US but I dropped out because I got a job in the film business which led me to other ones.

I’ve never been so creative. I started out as a production manager and a producer before I became a director. I learned the craft of filmmaking through many years as a producer. And then I slowly screwed back to becoming a director.

My happiest moment as a filmmaker is when I edit my film. Seeing the film take shape in the editing room, seeing the possibility of the film and putting it all together.

There are very different approaches to film. Some people know exactly what they want, but I’ve never been one of those. I love to shoot everything and put it together in the editing room.

I don’t think a filmmaker can really tell when they are successful because it’s a really tough business. People always look at the press, the awards, the red carpets and the box office, but we’re living in the trenches of the set every day.

Every movie is more difficult than the previous one. We are crucified by critics, the box office and investors every single day. There are only a few movie makers who are really immune from negative reactions to their films.

The Hong Kong movie industry is completely dead. It’s a classic case where we really needed to go international because we couldn’t survive on a population of 6 million alone.

The existence of Hong Kong movies came about due to Chinese people all over the world needing entertainment after the communist takeover [in the mainland] in 1949. But now the demographics have changed. [Overseas Chinese] don’t need to watch Chinese movies anymore.

The Hong Kong movie industry has found a new lease of life in [mainland] China, where the industry is really blooming. Lots of Hong Kong filmmakers are making movies in China but Hong Kong is still their identity.

For Thai films, don’t just think about going international, because it’s a very unstable market place. The Thai film industry is far better than Hong Kong’s because it has a huge local market. That’s it’s life support and backbone.

I’ve always wanted to make a movie in Thailand about my parents’ generation in the 50s. I didn’t live here long enough to have my own stories so I wanted to do theirs.

I never throw things away. I have lots of old books and still keep pieces of papers. I’m very sentimental. Sometimes I’m blown away when I find a piece of paper. Not long ago I found a jacket that had a movie ticket in there. I looked at the date. It was from my first date with my wife, 18 years ago.

I think those things are key to my creativity. It’s the kind of stuff that makes me want to make a movie.

I don’t need any hobbies because my work is already a hobby and that’s all I want. I just love to watch movies, make movies and read books that I could turn into movies.

It doesn’t matter how busy you are as a filmmaker, you still have time if you really want to make time. Now I have a daughter so I save time for my family as much as I can, to be a normal father.

The biggest quality of a movie maker is the ability to tell a story. It’s the key. No matter how stylish you are in technical aspects or camera work, you still need to tell a story that moves people.

BK: How did you guys meet?
Best: We knew each other from high school in Lampang province, but we were all in different bands. Then about a year ago, Key uploaded his song “Sam Rub Krai Kon Nan” under the name SomeMoreRooms on YouTube. It became a hit and we’ve since come together as a band while attending university.

BK: Why are you so popular despite having only a few original songs?
Key: Our music is very easy listening pop. I think our popularity can be put down to the cover song trend on YouTube. People initially came to check out the songs we covered and then learned of our own music. Then some artists started to cover our songs.

BK: Were you worried that you might lose fans by changing your band name?
Key: I was a bit afraid of losing fans from my ex-band, but we really had to change the name once we became serious about playing together. I noticed that when people said the old name quickly, it sounded like SmallRoom, the popular record label. Anyway, we’re just happy making music, and I think real music lovers will appreciate what we do regardless of what name it’s under.

BK: What inspired you to play music and who is your idol?
Best: Honestly, it was to impress girls. I tried to make up for my looks when I was in the first year of secondary school.
Key: I was inspired by my father who I can remember playing the guitar every day since I was a little boy. I like John Mayer. His lyrics and tunes are touching. They tell stories. I also like Tesla Boy from Russia.
Tonyang: I formed a band when I was about 13. Joey Boy is my idol. I like his lifestyle, his attitude and his Gancore Club record label.
Dew: My favorite artists are Maroon 5, Santana, and Eric Clapton.

BK: What is your biggest dream as a musician?
Best: I want to release a legendary song; on that people still listen to ten years later.
Key: I’m not aiming to be super popular. I just want people to like the songs I sing.

BK: What are your day jobs?
Dew: I work at the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority as a demographics information officer.
Tonyang: I’m still looking for a job. I’m interested in working in TV because I graduated from communication arts.
Best: I’m a creative at TV Thunder, on The Master Key show.
Key: I’m a broker at Kasikornthai Bank. I didn’t plan to work there. But I was offered a job and I quite like it now.

I grew up on a boat as my family went up and down the Chao Phraya River selling sand. I was sent to live in the Klong Toey slum with my grandmother when I was six so I could attend school.

I just wanted to keep studying. Even though I got a scholarship, my parents didn’t have enough money for my daily expenses so I had to leave school in the ninth grade at age 14.

I started working at a garment factory because my sister had worked there. I really hated it but I didn’t know how to find other work. I ended up staying there for seven years before I quit to help my husband’s relative at her cooked-to-order shop.

I knew so many Thai recipes because I was made to cook by my mom and grandma since I was a little girl. At the time, I complained and kept asking them why we had to cook while others bought instant food.

It’s cheaper to cook. I stopped complaining when I realized how poor we were. We only had enough money to buy raw ingredients to cook and feed eight family members. If we had bought prepared food, it would only have fed half of us.

Cooking is my blessing. I am thankful to my mom and grandma for teaching me everything. I didn’t have to take an expensive course at a culinary school.

Launching a business is hard. When I started my own cooked-to-order shop, people would always come to eat then not pay because they had no money. They saw me as a young woman who didn’t dare ask them to pay their bill.

The food price hike in 2008 was my turning point. I was struggling to support my family as food prices skyrocketed. Anji Barker, a friend I’d known for a long time from her charity work with Helping Hands, offered to help me to open a charity cooking school in the slum.

There is nothing more foolish than believing yourself to be a fool. I was afraid to teach foreigners at the cooking school because I felt that my English wasn’t good enough.

Having someone believe in you is important. Though I rejected their offers of help many times, I still got huge support from my friends, especially Anji. They believed in me so I finally overcame my fear.

Everything is hard at the beginning. We went to a lot of churches to give away free meals and raise awareness of our school, but we were victims of the political turmoil when protesters seized Suvarnabhumi Airport. Students canceled all their classes and I had no income for three months.

The fear of running out of money kept me fighting. Seeing my family struggling and in debt pushed me to not give up. We slowly got more customers as Cooking with Poo gained international recognition.

My nickname is actually Chompoo (rose apple), not Poo as everyone remembers. I used to hate being called Poo, because it has a funny meaning in English and even Chinese. But now I really love it. It’s my brand.

Drugs and gambling are big problems for poor people. When people start gambling, they accumulate debts and then they have to sell drugs to pay back those debts. It’s a vicious circle.

Poverty clouds our expectations of a better life. The money is too limited to learn new things. Many are afraid of being rejected because they are from the slum.

It’s with resentment that people judge us for living here. They assume we must be junkies or thieves. They know nothing about us, still they look down upon us simply for where we live.

Our community is changing rapidly. Lots of parents are working hard to send their kids to university and more and more people are getting good jobs.

I have no wish to live anywhere else. I love living here. But everyone is afraid that the government will force the slum people to move elsewhere as [Thai Port’s] 20-year rental contract is already over.

Sharing is happiness. I’m so proud that our charity can create jobs for the community through handmade jewelry, food delivery, catering and now Munjai Café [Confident Café], which is all about giving our children the chance to advance their skills in the service industry. We hope it will give them the confidence and abilities to work in hotels and restaurants in the future.

Confidence is everything. I always tell the children who work with me that they are beautiful and assure them that they can be whatever they want to be. They just need to fight for it.

Teach your kids through hard work. I bring my kids to work at the school every weekend. I tell them to do everything from taking care of customers to cleaning the toilets so that they learn the value of money.

To continue giving is my dream. I was given a chance by Anji and it changed my life. Now I dream of making others’ lives better. It’s about endless giving.

I wanted to study communication arts after realizing I hated math and didn’t want to be a bookworm. I chose to study journalism because I love to communicate with people.

I hosted some teen and beauty TV shows, but it wasn’t until I landed a job on the tech and gadget program Text 24 that I really found my calling. Being a co-host with John Nuvo made me realize just how much I love IT stuff.

When the head producer quit, I decided that I didn’t want to waste my time on the show and struck out to do something new. I started writing scripts and being a producer in my own right.

Doing something from a young age can really stroke your ego. I’d had a lot of jobs on TV and as a producer, so I thought I could create my own TV show all by myself.

The reality knocked the stuffing out of me. I tried to get air-time for my show by shopping it around at all the TV channels. But all of them rejected me because they didn’t believe I had it in me. 

80% of people judge me solely on my girly looks. They think I don’t have any true knowledge about IT. Some even say I wouldn’t be famous if I didn’t present myself in a sexy way.

Don’t let others get you down. It’s not easy to change people’s opinions, so don’t feel obliged to change yourself for the sake of appeasing people who don’t know you.

I started my online TV show Ceemeagain.com, which also aired on YouTube, five years ago. People kept asking me why I was doing something that didn’t make money. I promised myself that I would stick at it until I had proved myself. And it really helped me forge a reputation.

Opportunities are so precious. Count yourself fortunate to be given any opportunity. Once my online program started getting noticed, I got a lot more jobs on TV programs as an IT anchor, including on Channel 3.

People now call me “The Princess of IT,” which is something I’m really proud of. It shows I don’t have to pretend to be someone else to achieve what I want.

Don’t judge things too quickly. I used to think beauty pageants were full of brainless beauties, but my opinion changed after I participated in the Miss Thailand Universe and Miss Thailand World contests back in 2007.

Seeing the participants’ passion for achieving perfection blew me away. Their boundless energy eventually rubbed off on me, too. I was inspired to write a book about my experiences, but I’ve yet to show it to anyone. Still, it’s a good memory that I’ll be able to tell my children when I get older. It helped me understand that you can have both beauty and brains.

I’m addicted to social networking and gadgets because it’s my work. But for many it can just suck up their time. We need to use our time productively. It’s good to keep in touch with friends, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of interacting with the real world.

I dream of inventing something that changes people’s lives. It doesn’t have to be cutting edge technology, just something that touches people.

Technology ruins relationships in some ways. It’s sad to see a child cry and then their mom fix the situation by putting an iPad in their hands.

It’s tough trying to keep up-to-date with technology but I never get bored of it. I love to follow how technology can change people’s lives.

I didn’t agree with the tablets for first grade students policy at first. Kids that age would be better off practicing to hold a pen than a monitor. Now, I agree somewhat, but it would be better if the tablets came from Thailand, not China.

While Thai tablets might be a little more expensive, they’d be cheaper in the long term as we could recycle and upgrade them so that they wouldn’t end up as junk. We’re still an agricultural nation; how much rice would we have to sell to buy more tablets in the future?

People always giggle when they find out I read dharma books. I put them in the same category as psychology and philosophy; you can bring all these thoughts into your work. This helps me exercise caution when I’m writing news for the public.

I’m not an Apple devotee like people see me. I use all types of gadgets, including Samsung products. As for the iPhone 5, I like the design, but honestly, gadgets that only change their design aren’t really worth the investment. 

I admire Steve Jobs because his life was so relatable. He was adopted, didn’t graduate from university, admitted to taking drugs, was fired from his own company and came back again as a changed man. His life was full of evolution; a real human life.

No one is born perfect. You must keep learning new things. You might think you’re just a normal person, but one day you might change the world.

I was kind of lost during my teenage years. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. I was good at school so I thought I might study medicine. I ended up studying electrical engineering. It wasn’t my happiest year.

I’m a rebel. I think it’s quite lucky I didn’t study arts straight away because I might have clashed with the professors. I always have my idea on how to do things and it doesn’t follow any artistic rules.

I love trees and flowers as I grew up in the more rural surroundings of Thonburi. I was drawn to flower arrangement when I was working as an engineer. There was a Japanese flower arranging school in my office building so I decided to study it as a hobby.

I kept getting jobs as a florist for events after doing the course for two years. I finally had a chance to open my small flower delivery service, called Sakul Flowers, and started writing columns for magazines such as Ploy Gam Pet and Elle Decoration.

There are no boundaries in design. I love the fact that I didn’t study art, so I just do what I want.

My engineering knowledge actually helps me a lot. It helps me create floral installations which are my signature. I can design the whole structure using my engineering skills and then use my artistic side to arrange the flowers.

Orchids are my favorite flowers. It’s a tropical flower and really exotic. It inspires me.

Flowers are representative of the universe. They show you that nothing lasts forever. A human life might take 60 years to touch on this eternal truth but flowers can bloom and die in the same day.

We’re lucky our culture has strong roots. You can explore the world as far as you want but in the end you’re still able to come back to our precious culture. Our life wouldn’t be this fun if we didn’t have what our ancestors have created for us. It’s important to take care of it.

I feel overwhelmed to see singers sing traditional songs in the Thai version of [TV talent show] The Voice. You see these great jazz singers as well as luk-tung singers on the same stage. And they wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be here, even artists like Thawan Duchanee wouldn’t be here, if we didn’t have our traditions and culture.

I used to be a grumpy perfectionist. I blasted others, lost my temper and then used the excuse that I’m an artist. I now regret every time I did that.

I even went to see a psychologist and took pills to try and cure my stress. She told me that if you accept that you have problems, then you’re halfway to solving them already.

One day, my assistant said to me, “please stop grumbling and I promise that all the work can be done perfectly.” It made me realize you can choose to reach your goal with anxiety or be calm and treat people nicely.

Proper care of your mind is the key to being happy. If you find yourself having a problem, just step out from the issue and see the cause. Then don’t let it happen again.

Stop thinking before going to bed. It’s hard, but think about what you’ve done that day, write down a list of what to do tomorrow and then forget it when you touch the pillow.

I love running in the morning. It’s like doing meditation for me.

People don’t live in the present nowadays. I feel pity for them, while they’re among friends, they keep looking at their smartphones following feeds on social media sites which are already showing the past of somebody else.

My new inspirations come from travel. I love to travel in Asia because you can still touch the traditional cultures. If you go to old towns in Europe, people just dress up in traditional clothes at tourist attractions. But in India, you still see people wearing the same saris they have for centuries.

There’s no tourist attraction that’s quite as much fun as markets. I love to visit markets, especially flower markets, every time I go abroad.

Opening the Museum of Floral Culture is like fulfilling my destiny. I’ve been looking for this type of house for years. I love its ambience, both the 100-year-old architecture and the garden.

I really love Disneyland. I love its fantasy and fairytales. I dream of opening a Disneyland-like flower park presenting floral cultures from all over the world.

I’m in the process of making a book on Bangkok. I want it to act as a guide for flower lovers who want to see the floral culture and sites here.

I never lose my inspiration. Good artists never stop thinking. Just be honest to yourself and let things flow.

You have two ways of dealing with problems. One, put in your best effort to fix it. Two, if you can’t fix it, then learn to live with it.