Choose Your Battles

Today I learned that there is nothing worth fighting about at home. I don't recall what the argument was about but we just kept on going at it for what seemed like for ever. Then my mother walks in and says to me," Choose your battles. Choose your battles." Then I realized that the best arguments are the ones you don't have to experience. For the rest of the day there was several potential argument that were avoided because of the three word phrase my mother told me.