"Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties."
--Benjamin Franklin
My take: Life is what it is, don't expect it to measure up to your ideas of what it should be. Realize that you do what you can to make it better and that's all you can do. While easygoing is the goal, uptight is the result of measuring life by your own rules when Life, God or the Universe has it's own agenda for you and those around you.