If we go out looking for reasons to worry, we will soon find plenty. If we actively look for things to find fault with, we can expect to find a similarly high success rate. The universe is very generous to us in this regard. Yet it is equally generous whenever we make a genuine conscious effort to find hope, inspiration and reassurance. Such things don't hide from our view. It's just that we tend to become more or less adept at recognising them, depending on our attitude. When something very powerful is happening to you or around you, it may not be immediately obvious. Don't assume, just because you can't see proof that magic is happening, that it isn't happening. It is!
Why do people sometimes get terribly upset about matters that most folk might see as trivial or irrelevant? It may be because privately, they are wrestling with something big and difficult. If that issue is so demanding, they may find it almost impossible to think clearly about it or to allow themselves even the slightest emotional reaction. So all the pent-up tension gets inadvertently channeled into an exaggerated response to some other apparent trigger. If you want the right things to happen try to see beyond the obvious.
We look back on musical trends of the past and think, 'Why did I ever like that?' We look back too, on the fashions that we were once so fond of and think, 'Why did I ever wear that?' Of course, if we wait around long enough, even yesterday's most inexcusable excesses come back in vogue. But that's not really a justification for allowing too many choices to be influenced by 'the things that people tend to think at the moment.' Your most important choices need to be based on values that are truly timeless.
It is never a good idea to try to tell someone something that they do not want to hear. Even if you think there are very good reasons why they ought to have a matter drawn to their attention, even if you feel an obligation to enlighten them, this must be weighed against the potential consequences of triggering an avalanche of emotional response. It may be the case now, that the best thing you can do is help subtly steer someone towards an understanding that, really, they need to reach on their own. Try to be patient. 
Apparently, the next big gold rush will happen on the sea bed. Precious minerals can now be harvested from deep thermal vents. This may do irreparable harm to the ocean but why worry about that as long as there is money to be made? If, one day, someone wants to be truly pioneering, they will help encourage the whole human race to free itself from a futile obsession with rocks and metals. And there is your dilemma this weekend. Do you just go along with whatever everyone else values or do you set a different standard?
Whenever we find ourselves having to think about a problem to which there is apparently no solution, we end up with a distorted view. It becomes hard, not just to handle the frustration but to contain it, so that it is directed only at the key concern. Or, to put it another way, it becomes too easy to assume that this awkward situation is just one of several scenarios. Yet events clearly demonstrate that it is only in one area of life that you face a real challenge now - and even here, all is far from hopeless.