Perspective
The size of problems is just a matter of perspective. For one, hesitation of a beloved in answering a question, they believe to be essential, is a matter of life and death. For another, their father’s indiscretion, in a momentary betrayal of their mother’s honour and trust, is the worst possible unsolvable problem imaginable. Yet another believes that being lonely is the bleakest event that can happen in one’s life. Let us not forget that from the lichen’s perspective all these and moreover the entire human civilisation does not even qualify as a problem. We have just been a recent mild annoyance that will disappear soon.