Bridge over troubled waters

(If you look closely at this fancy new jigsaw, you will see that there is a bridge over a completely untroubled beck).

Today there was conflict, mainly with one person, about my attempting to change the seating plan in a class! I try to let go of such things by :
a) checking with other friends that I'm not actually being unreasonable
b) eating cake and chocolates
c) drinking wine
d) embroiling myself in non urgent family matters, such as ordering four metres of tartan ribbon for my mother
e) doing jigsaws while watching Netflix documentaries.


Perhaps some of those steps could be eliminated?