As a photographer, if the weather doesn’t go your way, you look for photographs anyway. And that is a good carryover to the rest of life. Why do we make such a thing over having our way? It is eventually going over into, “Okay, now what?” anyway. Why not just switch what we want into exactly what we have and treat it as though it is what we have always hoped we would be able to deal with? Attitude and perspective are everything. The sooner we square ourselves up with having a way being an invitation to gloom, sadness and woe, the less of that we have to deal with. By preventing our preferences from becoming anything more than that, we set ourselves up for enjoying the next best thing, or the one after that, without flipping out, listing to starboard and winding up on the rocks.
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 